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Index to Volumes 18 - 37:4

A Abbey, Analyn, Jan 18:20

Abelia pruning, Nov 99:11

Abutilon megapotamicum bell-flowered, May 13:28

Brazilian flower, Jul 05:24

acacia blackbrush, Sep 99:37

huisache, Sep 99:36

Acalypha wilkesiana (copper plant) heat-loving, May 05:44, May 06:46

ornamental foliage, Mar 03:42

Accents of Salado (garden accent retailer), Jul 05:32

Achillea (yarrow) for health, Jul 07:32 preserving, Jul 05:23

Acorn Springs Farms Inc. (Hallsville), Sep

02:24

Acourtia wrightii (brownfoot) for Trans Pecos gardens, May 99:16

Adams, Baxter (maple grower), Sep 00:26 Adams, Bill (tomato tester), Jan 12:20, Jan

17:17

Adams, Don (gardener), Jan 14:45 Adams, William D.

leeks, Nov 98:17

Adams, William D. (horticulturist), Nov 08:14

Addison, Texas 'Earthkind' rose trials, Sep 05:38

Adiantum capillus (maidenhair fern) fern for Texas, Mar 08:23

A.E. Leonard Native Plant Garden, Jan 14:32

aeration lawn, Jul 99:9

pond, Jan 99:13, May 99:10, May 00:12

Aesculus (buckeye) glabra, Jul 08:44

pavia var. flavescens, Jul 08:44

pavia var. pavia, Jul 08:44 Affleck, Thomas (nurseryman), Sep 15:42

African iris, Jan 14:14

African violet diseases

virus, Jul 11:50

plant profile, Nov 11:24

Agapanthus plant profile, Mar 05:26

agarita. see Mahonia agarito. see Berberis

Agastache (hyssop) aurantiaca (orange hummingbird mint), Sep

12:28

barberi (giant hummingbird's mint), Sep 12:27

cana (mosquito plant), Sep 12:26

foeniculum, Mar 03:36, Jul 05:23, Mar 11:23 mexicana, Sep 12:28

plant profile, Jan 06:25, Sep 12:26

rupestris (licorice mint), Sep 12:27

Agave montana, Nov 09:43

neomexicana, Nov 09:43 plant profile, Jul 07:28, Sep 07:4, Nov 16:48

Ageratum (flossflower) 'Artist' series, Jan 06:29 crazy for daisies, Nov 05:27

plant trials, Sep 06:29

agriculture. see farms

Agrostis capillaries as contaminant filter, Nov 15:32

air potato vine. see Dioscorea bulbifera

Ajilvsgi, Geyata

instant butterfly garden, Jan 14:36

Ajuga (bugleweed) reptans, Jul 03:23

for shade, Mar 99:11

Alamanda slow-growing tropical vine, Mar 00:46

Albizia julibrissin (mimosa) plant trials, Sep 06:31

Alcea (hollyhock) fungal diseases, Jul 00:47 plant profile, Sep 04:24, Jan 13:22

'Queeny Purple,' Mar 04:47

Alchemilla xanthoclora (lady's mantle) plant profile, Mar 03:38

alder, yellow. see Turnera ulmifolia

alfalfa. see Medicago sativa

alfalfa meal, Jul 03:38

aliens. see invasive species

Allamanda cathartica tropical vine, May 17:26

alligator tears. see Kalanchoe

Allium see also garlic; onion

chives, Jan 99:7, Nov 01:13, May 12:39 for cool-season gardens, Jul 15:16

harvesting, May 99:19

sativum, Sep 09:34, May 10:20 schoenoprasum, Mar 11:24, Mar 14:22

tuberosum, Mar 03:37, May 04:28, Jan

08:22, Mar 14:22 umbrels in flower arrangements, Nov 15:5

allspice. see Pimenta dioica

almond, flowering. see Prunus amygdalus almond soup, toasted, May 13:31

Aloe cooperi, May 14:29 distans, May 14:29

ferox, May 14:29

greatheadii, May 14:30 maculata, May 14:29

marlothii, May 14:29

plicatilis, May 14:29 polyphylla, May 14:28

sinkatana, May 14:29

striata, May 14:28 striatula, May 14:28

variegata, May 14:29

vera, Jan 03:28, May 14:26, Mar 15:40

Aloysia citriodora, Jul 11:36

triphylla language of flowers, Jan 02:31

Mexican herb, Jan 07:35

for scent, Jan 06:33, Nov 09:17 for tea, Jan 01:43

Texas immigrant, May 01:35

virgata (almond verbena), Nov 09:18, Mar 11:23, May 13:41

Alpine, Texas passion for native plants, May 15:26

Alpinia galangal, Sep 02:32

zerumbet (variegated ginger), Mar 03:43

Alstroemeria psittacina (parrot lily) identification, Nov 09:50

Alternanthera (Joseph's coat)

heat-loving, May 06:46

ornamental foliage, Mar 03:42 plant trials, Sep 06:30

rubiginosa, May 05:45

Texas Superstar, Jan 16:32

Alyogyne huegelii (blue hibiscus) plant profile, Jan 06:27

Alyssum for fall color, Jul 16:28

low maintenance plant, Jan 00:9

spring reseeding annual, Nov 01:29 alyssum, sweet. see Lobularia

amaranth edible weed, Mar 04:18, Jul 06:50, Sep 06:5,

Sep 11:43

plant profile, May 02:13

summer green, May 99:42, May 18:16 amaranth, globe. see Gomphrena

Amarillo Botanical Gardens, Nov 11:30

amaryllis. see Hippeastrum

Amblyolepsis setigera (huisache daisy) reseeder, Jul 13:50

for Rio Grande Plains gardens, Nov 99:25 for wildflower meadow, Jul 99:18

ambush bug, Mar 03:20

American Botanical Council Medicinal Herb Garden, Nov 01:20

American Horticultural Society heat zone map, Jul 99:7

anacua hardy tree, Nov 98:42

Anagallis arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) native groundcover, Jan 00:36

Anchusa capensis (summer forget-me-not) South African native, Jul 04:42

Anderson, Bob (garlic grower), Sep 01:14

Anderson, Linda unwanted spiders, Nov 01:41

Anderson, Wynn (botanical curator), May

01:38 Andrews, L.E.

gumbo onions, May 11:44

Andropogon gerardii as contaminant filter, Nov 15:31

Anemone language of flowers, Jan 02:31

Anethum (dill) for caterpillars, Mar 13:13

graveolens, Jan 01:43, Sep 09:30 harvesting, May 99:20

identification, May 12:50

plant profile, Sep 06:32, Sep 12:20 planting, Mar 04:46

Angelica archangelica for health, Mar 02:38, Jul 07:32

Angelonia (summer snapdragon) 'Angelmist White Cloud,' Jan 06:29

angustifolia, Sep 03:26 plant trials, Sep 06:29

angel's trumpet. see Brugmansia; Datura

angel's wings. see Schizanthus pinnatus anise. see Pimpinella anisum

anise hyssop. see Agastache

Anisicanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii

(hummingbird bush) horn-flowered, May 13:29

for native gardens, May 01:41

annuals cool-season, Nov 99:9, Jul 16:28

fertilizing, Jan 02:7, Sep 03:8


fragrant, May 13:42

heat-loving, May 05:44 heat-tolerant, May 03:7

herbs, Sep 05:20, May 08:23

plant trials, Jan 06:28 prolonging blooms, May 05:41

saving seeds of, Jul 02:21

spring reseeding, Nov 01:26 for summer, May 11:26

vines, Jan 03:40, May 17:26

warm-season, Jul 16:26 watering winter, Nov 00:8

anoles, Nov 07:5, May 08:5

Anredera cordifolia (Madeira vine or sweet

mignonette) hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:40

Anthemis nobilis (chamomile) for health, Jul 07:32

for scent, Jan 06:33

for tea, Jan 01:43

Antigonon leptopus (Queen's wreath or coral

vine) fall bloomer, Jul 06:32 Mexican beauty, Sep 03:25

plant profile, Sep 07:47

vigorous vine, Jul 12:5 Antique Rose Emporium (Brenham), Nov

01:8, Sep 02:21

Antirrhinum (snapdragon) for fall color, Jul 16:28

plant trials, Jan 06:29

ants see also fire ants

biological control, Sep 99:20, Jan 04:50 carpenter, Sep 99:20

Guinea, Sep 99:20

leaf-cutting, Jul 05:50 little black, Sep 99:20

tramp, Sep 99:20

Apache plume. see Fallugia paradoxa

Aphanostephus skirrhobasis (lazy daisy) for wildflower meadow, Jul 99:18

aphids the bug that ate France, Nov 04:16

on fruit trees, Jan 02:46

on gaura, Jul 08:50 ladybugs for control, May 00:44

on melons, Jan 00:40

on pecan, May 99:9, Jul 99:8, Sep 99:11 pest profile, May 00:20, Jul 12:38

on roses, Nov 00:29

spraying, Jul 01:7, Mar 04:7 on tomato, May 01:7, Mar 02:31

on young plants, Mar 99:6, Mar 02:8

apple backyard orchard, Jan 06:24

container grown, Nov 09:22

cotton root rot and, Nov 00:12 dwarf varieties, Nov 00:17, Mar 12:22

fruiting, Mar 00:49

plant profile, Jan 09:18 pollinators, Mar 99:8

pruning, Jan 11:32

timing of planting, Jan 08:50

apps My Cities Trees, Sep 16:44

apricot container grown, Nov 09:22

dwarf varieties, Nov 00:46, Mar 12:24

plant profile, Nov 07:14, Sep 09:41

pruning, Jan 11:33

Aptenia cordifolia (ice plant) trailer, Jan 14:41

aquaponics, Mar 12:36, Jan 16:22

aquatic plants, illegal, Sep 05:46

Aquilegia (columbine) canadensis, Mar 07:45

chrysantha var. hinckleyana, Mar 07:45 plant profile, Nov 02:31


x puryearana, May 07:44 'Songbird' series, Jan 06:29

'Swan' series, Jan 06:29

arboreta. see gardens arbors, grape, Sep 99:11

arborvitae, Nov 08:34

Arbutus xalapensis, May 15:28 Argentina, flowers from, Jan 07:24

Argyle Acres (Arygle), Sep 02:21

Aristolochia tomentosa (pipevine) for butterflies, Sep 17:32

seed source, Nov 09:5

armadillos, Nov 06:50, Mar 07:5, Nov 14:29, Jul 15:50

armyworms, Jan 99:29, Sep 01:9

Arnold, Forrest (Austin Organic Gardeners), Nov 04:36

arrowhead, Aztec. see Sagittaria arsenic, Nov 15:28

art in the garden, Sep 11:44 gardens as, Jan 01:22

gourd, Jan 12:35

Artemisia (sagebrush or wormwood) abrotanum (southernwood), May 02:31, May

04:22

absinthium, May 02:31 annua (sweet Anne), May 02:31

dracunculus (tarragon), Jan 02:31, May

02:33, Jul 05:29, Mar 14:22 filifolia, Jan 99:20

frigida, May 02:32

lactiflora (white mugwort), May 02:31 ludovicina albula (silver king), May 02:31

natural moth repellant, Mar 01:8

overwatering, May 00:8 plant profile, Mar 05:35

'Powis Castle,' Jul 00:39, Sep 01:29, May

14:38 preserving, Jul 05:23

for scent, Jan 06:33

for southern physic garden, Jul 02:17 stellerana, May 02:32

tridentate, May 02:32

vulgaris (common mugwort), May 02:31, May 04:22

artichoke, Jan 06:46, Jul 06:5, Jul 09:14, Sep

09:5 hinckleyana, Sep 01:28

arugula cool-season culinary herb, Sep 09:32 cool season green, Jul 99:42, Nov 08:42

Arundinaria gigantea (switch cane), May 18:46

Asarum splendens (wild ginger) for health, Jul 07:32


Texas tough, Jan 06:31

Asclepias (butterfly weed) for butterflies, Sep 17:31

curassavica, Jan 01:32

tuberosa, Nov 00:42, Jul 02:17, May 04:27

ash, Texas drought tolerant, May 00:11

fast growing tree, May 01:9

recommended, Jul 03:46 Ashton, Richard

apples, Jan 09:18

apricots, Nov 07:14, Sep 09:41 bananas, Sep 11:38

blackberries, Sep 08:20

citrus, May 09:34 dwarf fruit trees, Mar 12:22

fall berries, Nov 10:32

figs, Mar 08:36 fruit tree propagation, Jan 10:32

fruit tree pruning, Jan 11:32

gardening in Republic of Georgia, Nov 13:14 growing fruit in containers, Nov 09:20

hardy exotic fruit, Mar 09:26

jujube, Jan 08:18

peaches, Jul 10:30

pears, Nov 08:20

pick your own success, Sep 10:40 plums and plumcots, Jul 09:38

pomegranates, Mar 07:38, May 10:34

strawberries, Jul 08:20, Jul 11:41 sweet cherries, Sep 07:20

Texas olives, Mar 10:30 Ashton, Richard, Mar 13:32

Asian Garden (Dallas), Sep 05:30

asparagus female plants, Nov 98:45

growing, May 00:47, Mar 12:50, May 13:50

harvesting, Mar 06:50 mounding, Jul 02:5

moving bed, Nov 11:50

plant profile, Nov 11:14 planting crowns, Jan 00:8, Jan 02:6

storing, May 14:16

'UC 157,' Jan 00:8 watering, Sep 04:48

worth the wait, May 16:4

Aspidistra cutting back, Jan 04:10, Jan 06:11

elatior, Jan 02:40

grows poorly under oaks, Sep 01:10 protect from sun, wind, Jan 00:10

woody plant for shade, May 99:8

Asplenium platyneuron (ebony spleenwort), Sep 01:20

scolopendrium (Hart's-tongue fern), Mar

08:24 assassin bug, Mar 03:20

Aster see also Symphyotrichum August planting, Jul 99:7

for butterflies, Sep 02:37

carolinianus, Jul 06:34 for fall color, Jul 16:28

linostrys (Goldilocks), Nov 05:26

oblongifolius, Sep 04:43, Jul 05:28, Nov 98:29

propagation, May 06:50

aster, fall. see Symphyotrichum

Athyrium ghost fern for Texas, Mar 08:23

niponicum var. pictum (Japanese painted fern), Mar 08:23

Atriplex conescens (fourwing saltbush) for High Plains, Jan 99:20


Austin, Bonnie

the Paleolithic gardener, Nov 98:13 Austin, David (rose breeder), Nov 00:26

Austin, Texas Austin Organic Gardeners, Nov 04:34 Boggy Creek Farm, Jul 08:26, Sep 08:5, Nov

11:23

Bouldin Creek section, Mar 09:30 Community First! Village, Jul 15:40

FarmShare Austin, Nov 13:39

Festival Beach Community Garden, Nov 15:26

garden tour, Mar 17:4

Green Pastures, Sep 07:18 Lake Austin Spa Resort, Sep 07:16, May

15:20

Luci and Ian Family Garden, Sep 14:26 Micro Farm at University of Texas, Mar

15:24

Mobile Loaves and Fishes, Jul 15:40

The Natural Gardener, May 16:28

restaurant gardens, Sep 07:14

Sunshine Community Gardens, Jan 14:14 Sustainable Food Center, Jul 09:43

Urban Patchwork (neighborhood gardens),

Mar 12:32 Winedale Historical Center, May 16:32

Australia, plants from, Jan 06:26 autumn. see fall (season)

Avari, Perinaz

five steps to a first-time garden, Sep 14:13

avocado Mexican, Nov 02:26, Jan 03:5

protecting with row cover, May 07:5 wet roots, Sep 15:50

azalea. see Rhododendron

Aztec sweet herb. see Phyla scaberrima

B baby's breath. see Gypsophila

bachelor buttons. see Centaurea cineraria;

Gomphrena globosa

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) for caterpillars, Jul 99:7

for pest control, May 01:24, May 10:43 threat to Monarch butterflies, Jul 99:49

bacterial canker, Jan 99:44, Mar 99:8

bacterial leaf scorch, Jul 00:12 bahiagrass, May 05:19

Baker, Mikie

The Funny Farm, Sep 11:13 baking soda for pest control, May 01:24

baldcypress, Jul 03:43, Jan 04:45, Jul 11:45 balsam gourd. see Ibervillea lindheimeri

Bamberger, J. David (environmental activist),

May 13:34 Bambert Seed Company (Muleshoe), Sep

02:23

bamboo see also Nandina; Phyllostachys aurea

checking spread of, Jul 09:5

invasive, Nov 01:5 Mexican weeping, Nov 01:46

non-invasive, Mar 01:10

plant profile, Jul 01:14 windbreaks, May 04:49

banana books about, Nov 99:46 container grown, Nov 09:22

dwarf varieties, Mar 12:23

dying, Jan 11:50

growing in Denton, Nov 00:44

plant profile, Mar 09:27, Jul 09:20, Sep 11:38 plant trials, Sep 06:31

ripening tips, Jul 11:39

banana shrub. see Michelia figo Barbados cherry. see Malpighia glabra

barberry. see Berberis

Barclay, Gwen (and Madalene Hill) harvesting your herb garden, May 99:18

Barclay, Gwen (herbalist), Jul 02:12

bare-root stock avoid leftovers, Mar 06:11

planting, Jan 06:9

shrubs, Jan 02:8, Jan 03:8 sources of, Nov 01:10

trees, Jan 02:8, Jul 02:33, Jan 03:8

Barham, Warren and Margaret Texas Heritage Garden, Jan 01:34

Barleria cristata (Philippine violet) fall flowering, Jul 05:29, Jul 06:32


propagation, Nov 05:5, Jan 06:5

Barnett, Mark Caladium, Mar 99:18

fall blooming bulbs, Jul 99:30

basil. see Ocimum baskets, hanging. see hanging baskets

bat-faced plant. see Cuphea Bates, Jody

organics marry hydroponics, Jul 99:14

Batman, Vicki grandmother's green legacy, Mar 16:13

bats as beneficial creatures, Mar 01:23, Jul 04:5 guano, Jan 10:50

myth versus reality, Nov 98:23

bay laurel. see Laurus nobilis Bayou City Farmers' Market, Jan 07:22

bean All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:36 bloom-drop, Sep 11:50

Blue Lake string, Sep 10:50

build a green bean house, May 03:30 bush, May 10:17

butter, Mar 10:50, May 10:14, Jul 10:5

fall crop, Jul 99:20 green, May 03:14, May 12:5

'Hall's Improved Half-Runner,' Nov 13:42

insect control on, Nov 02:46, Sep 03:5 plant profile, May 99:38, May 08:14

planting, Mar 06:6

pole, Mar 07:22, May 10:17, Jan 11:50, Mar 18:14

purple, Jan 09:24

saving seeds of, Jul 02:20 space-saving, Mar 12:14

storing, May 14:16

'Yin Yang' (new for 2002), Jan 02:50 bean, scarlet runner. see Phaseolus

bear-grass. see Yucca

beargrass. see Nolina beautyberry. see Callicarpa americana

beebalm. see Monarda

bees bee box, Jul 16:5

bee-friendly gardening, Mar 16:26

beekeeping, Jul 00:34, May 18:26 bumblebees, May 18:31

decline of, May 99:47, Jul 99:5

gardening for native, May 18:30

herbs and, Mar 11:20

honeybees, May 99:47, Mar 03:50, Mar 08:42

on hummingbird feeders, Jan 18:5

leaf-cutting, Nov 99:49, Jul 00:47 mason, Mar 06:42

Million Pollinator Garden Challenge, Mar

16:4 mites and, Sep 99:7

nurturing with buckwheat, Jan 15:36

plants for, May 11:5 as pollinators, Mar 06:41, May 13:22

beet All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:36 'Chioggia,' Jan 00:8

plant profile, Sep 05:32, Sep 09:14, Jul 11:14

storing, May 14:16

beetles see also bugs; ladybugs

on beans, Sep 03:5

as beneficial insects, Mar 01:20, Mar 03:18

controlling, May 01:7

cucumber, Jan 00:40, Jul 02:46 ground, Mar 03:20

Japanese, Nov 00:47

leaf, May 00:20 Begnaud, Sharon (gardener), Jul 16:42

Begonia 'Babywing Pink,' Jan 06:29

'Pin-Up Flame,' Mar 99:7

semperflorens 'Kayleen,' Jan 06:31 watering, Jul 00:8

Whopper, Jul 16:24

withlacoochee, Sep 06:31 Bell, Nancy

something lost, Jul 17:13

beneficial creatures see also lacewings; ladybugs; wasps

avoiding insecticides, Jan 99:6

bats, Mar 01:23, Jul 04:5 birds, Mar 01:23

encouraging, Nov 99:29, May 01:10, May

08:36, May 15:24 insects, Mar 03:16, May 10:41, May 13:20

lizards, Mar 00:46, Nov 16:13

natural insecticides and, May 99:7 for organic gardeners, Mar 01:18

primer, May 00:18

bentgrass. see Agrostis capillaries

Berberis haematocarpa, Jul 08:44

ripens, Jul 08:44 swaseyi, Jul 08:43

trifoliolata, Nov 99:24, Jul 08:43

Berchemia scandens (rattan vine) cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:47

sources for, Mar 10:5

Berlandier, John Louis (botanist), Sep 15:40

Bermuda grass for acid soils, Sep 99:12

adaptability, Nov 01:46 control, May 06:39

fertilizing, Mar 00:9

plant profile, May 05:15 planting with Zoysia, May 00:46

pre-emergent herbicide, May 15:50

seeding, Jul 99:10, Mar 02:10 Texturf sod, Jul 00:10

Tif, May 01:11

water-wise turf, May 15:37


Bernal, Julio (entomologist), Sep 03:45

berries see also names of specific berries

fall, Nov 10:32

landscape plants, Sep 06:43 plant profile, Mar 02:16, Nov 12:26

Sweet Berry Farm, Sep 02:12

winter color, Nov 03:17 Bewley, Jerry D. (tomato grower), Nov 99:19

Bickerstaff, Steve (gardener), Nov 10:40

Bickley, Sally bamboo, Jul 01:14

Bidiuc, Bianca

Festival Beach Community Garden, Nov 15:26

bigeyed bug, Mar 03:20

Bignonia (crossvine) capreolata, Jul 02:31, May 07:44, Mar 09:48,

Nov 13:27, Jan 17:31

fast-growing evergreen, May 00:11

Billabong Fresh Flower Farm (Hempstead),

Nov 11:18

bindweed. see Ipomoea

biological control Dr. Julio Bernal, Sep 03:45

for fire ants, Sep 99:20 Kunafin (business), May 00:22

in organic gardens, Jul 05:18 primer, May 00:21

reader suggestions, Jan 00:6

bioponics, Jul 99:14 bird baths, Jan 99:6, Nov 02:49

bird feeders bees on hummingbird, Jan 18:5

birdhouses gourd, Mar 99:26, 28

owl nesting boxes, Jan 01:49

birds

see also hummingbirds

attracting, Sep 99:10, May 00:13, Nov 00:8, Jul 05:36, Jan 09:50, May 17:45

as beneficial creatures, Mar 01:23

and berries of beautyberry, Sep 09:5 buntings, May 15:12

deterring, Nov 14:29

eggshells for, Sep 00:49 geese, May 07:41

habitat for, Mar 18:40

landscaping for, Jan 06:43 mockingbirds, Mar 99:13, Sep 09:13

nuthatch, Mar 14:45

Pineywoods, Mar 14:45 wildlife capers, May 03:21

wrens, Mar 03:14

bitterweed. see Helenium Blachman, Vicki

culinary ginger, May 11:34

garlic, Sep 10:14 harvest of seeds, Sep 13:36

heirloom recipes, May 13:30

herbs basil, Jan 10:20

bee-plus garden, Mar 11:20

classic Italian, May 10:20 container gardening, Jul 10:20

cooking with, May 09:40, May 12:38

cool-season culinary, Sep 09:30 dill, Sep 12:20

easy to grow, Mar 14:20

essence of holiday, Nov 10:36

as gifts, Nov 08:26

lemon, Jul 11:35 Mexican, Jan 09:28

preserving, Sep 11:34

for scent, Nov 09:14 thyme, Mar 10:20

Madalene Hill, Jan 11:36

pelargoniums, Mar 09:38 stevia, Jul 09:30

black-eyed Susan. see Rudbeckia

black-eyed Susan vine, African, see

Thunbergia

black fungus, Nov 02:47

Black, Jennifer building a backyard sink, May 01:36

plants are people, too, Jan 01:13

black locust. see Robinia pseudoacacia black spot on roses, Nov 00:47, May 01:8, Jan

02:46, Jul 02:47

blackberry 'Arapaho,' Nov 99:14

backyard orchard, Jan 06:24

'Brazos,' Nov 99:14 chlorosis, Sep 17:50

'Clark Gold,' Mar 03:22, May 03:5

container grown, Jan 99:32, Nov 09:22 cutting canes, Jul 01:9, Sep 01:10

'Doyle,' Jul 01:5 dwarf varieties, Nov 00:16

easy to grow, Mar 99:8

fall, Nov 10:33 fertilizing, Jan 99:10, Jan 00:11, Mar 00:9,

Jan 01:10

harvesting, May 00:10, May 01:10 'Kiowa,' Nov 99:14

leaves for health, Jul 07:32

moving, Nov 04:46 'Natchez,' Jul 15:25

'Navahoe,' Nov 99:16

plant profile, Nov 99:14, Mar 02:17, Sep 07:36, Sep 08:20, May 13:24, Jul 17:42

planting near garden, Mar 09:50

pruning, Sep 99:11, Jul 03:9 root cuttings, Jan 99:10

'Rosborough,' Nov 99:14, Sep 17:50

soil pH requirements, Nov 00:12 Sweet Berry Farm, Sep 02:13

thornless, Nov 00:16

water for ripening, May 99:8 blackeyed pea, Jul 00:7

blanket flower. see Gaillardia

blight, early on tomato, Jul 99:47, Jul 00:46, Mar 02:30,

Jul 02:47, Mar 18:18

blogs, garden, Jul 08:24 blood meal, Jul 03:38

blooms, prolonging, May 05:41

blossom end rot, Mar 02:33 blue love grass. see Eragrostis elliottii

blue mist, Gregg's. see Eupatorium

blue stem, big. see Andropogon gerardii bluebeard. see Caryopteris x clandonensis

bluebells, Texas. see Eustoma grandiflorum

blueberry container grown, Jan 99:32, Mar 99:5, Nov

09:21

fertilizing, Mar 00:9, Jul 01:10 harvesting, May 01:10

mulching, Sep 99:11, Sep 01:10, Nov 01:9

plant profile, Mar 02:19

pruning, Sep 00:10, Jan 11:33

rabbiteye, Jan 99:11, Mar 99:8, Mar 00:9, Jan 01:10

soil preferences, Nov 00:12

in South Texas, Sep 08:5 USDA zone confusion, Jul 12:50

watering, May 99:8, Sep 01:10

bluebonnet. see Lupinus

bluegrass, Kentucky "Reveille," May 99:33

bluestem, big, Nov 00:24 bluestem, little, Nov 00:24, Nov 98:20

bluet. see Hedyotis crassifolia

Bob Wells Nursery (Lindale), Sep 02:24 Bocardo, Claire

little house in the country, Nov 00:14

Boggy Creek Farm (Austin), Jul 08:26, Sep 08:5, Nov 11:23

bois d'Arc, Mar 12:5

bok choi Asian green, Nov 12:23

plant profile, Jul 04:15

bolting, Jan 16:38 Bomar, Josie (daylily gardener), May 05:26

bone meal, Jul 03:38

boneset. see Eupatorium

book reviews see also writers and writing "Adventures in Texas Gardening," Jul 17:4

"The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses,"

Nov 98:22 “In Greg’s Garden,” Jan 11:47, Mar 11:5

"In Greg's Garden: A Pineywoods

Perspective on Gardening, Nature and Family," Mar 12:47

"Memories from a Hill Country Garden," Sep

16:4 "The Paleolithic Prescription," Nov 98:13

"Texas Gardener's Guide to Growing

Tomatoes," Jul 07:5

books for beginners, Jul 16:50

borage. see Borago officinalis

Borago officinalis (borage) bee-attracting, Mar 01:8, Mar 11:24

cool-season culinary herb, Sep 09:33 for sun, Mar 00:8

borers pine bark, Mar 00:11, May 03:46 on pistachio, Mar 00:46

squash vine, Sep 01:46, May 15:24

Boring, Matt natural water garden, Jul 04:32

water gardening, May 04:14

Borrello, Denise M. moles, Sep 06:24

Borrello-Wade, Denise

grubstake for skunks, Nov 01:49 Bostic, Bobby

the prisoner's garden, Sep 17:13

botanical gardens see also Dallas Arboretum and Botanical

Gardens

Amarillo Botanical Gardens, Nov 11:30 Chihuahuan Desert Gardens, May 01:38

Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and

Botanical Garden, Nov 07:40, May 15:31 A.E. Leonard Native Plant Garden, Jan 14:32

Fort Worth Botanic Gardens, Nov 02:22

Gardens of the American Rose Center, Sep


16:34

Hilltop Gardens, Mar 15:40 International Waterlily Collection, Jul 11:26

Luci and Ian Family Garden, Sep 14:26

Peckerwood Garden, May 10:30 San Antonio Botanical Garden, Jan 06:14

San Antonio Children's Garden, Nov 12:30

Shangri La Botanical Garden, Sep 10:20 South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature

Center, Mar 09:22

Stargate Manor Arboretum, Mar 18:26 Texas A & M Horticultural Gardens, May

03:38

Texas Agricultural Education and Heritage Center, Mar 05:38

Texas Heritage Garden, Jan 01:34

botanists John Louis Berlandier, Sep 15:40

Samuel Botsford Buckley, Sep 15:43

Thomas Drummond, Sep 15:40

Josiah Gregg, Sep 15:40

Gideon Lincecum, Sep 15:44

Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer, Nov 06:26, Sep 10:46, Sep 15:41

Peter Loos, Jan 15:28

Peter Heinrich Oberwetter, Sep 10:47 Michael Powell, May 15:26

Julien Reverchon, Sep 15:43 John Leonard Riddell, Sep 15:42

Auguste Adolph Lucien Trécul, Sep 15:42

Charles Wright, Sep 15:42 Mary Sophie Young, Sep 15:44

bottle bush. see Callistemon sublates

bottle trees, Sep 11:45 Bouchea linifolia, May 15:30

Bougainvillea blooming, Sep 00:46, Jul 04:24, Jan 10:5 cuttings, Nov 08:25

pruning leggy, Sep 02:46

tropical vine, May 17:26 bouncing net. see Saponaria officinalis

Bovee, Christian Nestell, Mar 02:11

bower vine. see Pandora jasminoides

Brachyscome (or Brachycome) (Swan River

daisy) plant profile, Jan 06:27

Bracken, Michael

eat fresh, May 14:13

feeding the world one garden at a time, Jul 07:18

high on gardening, Mar 15:13

Hunt School Youth Discovery Gardens, Mar 10:36

pink is the new green, Mar 05:13

Sky Island gardening, Nov 10:40 soothing garden, Jul 99:13

trees for Texas, Nov 06:14

Urban Harvest, Jan 07:20 Victoria Educational Gardens, Nov 07:18

Brann, J.D. (tomato breeder), Jan 13:20

Brassica juncea (mustard), May 16:17

oleracea, Nov 13:48

brassicas, flowering, Nov 12:24 Brazil, plants from, Jul 05:24

Brazilian plume. see Justicia

Brazos de Dios (farming community), Jul 01:26

bridges for water gardens, Jul 99:11

Brison, Fred R. (pecan expert), Jan 05:5

broccoli

All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:36 Chinese, Nov 12:23, Sep 17:15

edible sprouts, Jul 99:42

fall crop, Jul 99:20 outstanding varieties, Nov 98:6

plant profile, Sep 99:22, Sep 02:40, Sep

05:14, Jan 11:14 pods, Mar 11:5

storing, May 14:16

Brock, Jadzia my Polish garden in Texas, Sep 01:12

bromeliads, May 00:34

Brooks, Debra (gardener), May 14:21 Brooks, Susan (gardener), Mar 09:31

brown patch, May 02:46, Jul 03:10, Nov 04:11

brown spot, Sep 02:46 brownfoot. see Acourtia wrightii

Brownwood Community Garden, Jan 13:50,

Mar 13:33

Brugmansia (angel's trumpet) versus Datura, Jul 05:5

for fall, Jul 06:31 fragrant, Mar 09:46, May 13:42

nocturnal flower, Mar 04:39, Jul 09:46, Jul

13:23 plant profile, Mar 05:36

trumpet-flowered, May 13:29

Brussels sprouts All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:36

growing successfully, Jul 99:46 pest control without poisons, May 13:50

plant profile, Sep 03:34, Sep 15:14

storing, May 14:16 Bryant, Fred, Jan 14:32

Bt. see Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)

buckbrush. see Symphoricarpos orbiculatus buckeye. see Aesculus

buckeye, Mexican. see Ungnadia speciosa

Buckley, Samuel Botsford (botanist), Sep 15:43

buckthorn, Carolina berries, Nov 12:28 for Blackland Prairies gardens, Jul 99:28

buckwheat, Jan 15:36

Buddha’s hand, Jul 11:50

budding fruit tree propagation, Jan 10:33

Buddleia (butterfly bush) 'Black Knight,' Nov 01:9

'Dartmoor,' Nov 01:8

davidii, Mar 07:16 'Fountain,' Nov 01:9

fragrant, May 13:40

'Honeycomb,' Mar 01:8, Nov 01:8 invasive? Jul 15:50

mite control, Jul 04:9

'Pink Delight,' Nov 01:9 pruning, Jul 02:7

'Raspberry Wine,' Mar 01:8, Nov 01:8

buffalo bur. see Solanum

buffalograss '609,' Nov 00:31, Jan 01:10

fertilizing, May 99:9, Jul 99:10, May 00:47 low-maintenance, Mar 00:9, Jul 13:50

for mini-meadow, Jul 06:12

mowing, Jul 00:10 plant profile, May 05:17

seeding, Mar 02:10

'Stampede,' Nov 00:12, Jan 01:10, 47, May

01:11

'Texoka,' Nov 00:13, Jan 01:10 for thin soil, May 01:46

'Top Gun,' Jan 01:10

water-wise turf, May 15:36 weed control, May 99:9, May 00:47, Jan

02:47

bugleweed. see Ajuga

bugs see also names of specific bugs

basics, May 00:20 beneficials, Mar 03:18

true, Mar 01:21

building projects see also ponds

backyard sink, May 01:36

green bean house, May 03:30 hoop houses, May 01:18

misting systems, Jul 99:22

wire cages, Mar 99:16

Bulbine caulescens, Jul 07:50

flavescens, Jul 01:21 frutescens, Jul 04:41, Mar 05:45, Jul 07:50

bulbs chill period, Nov 99:9, Mar 00:6 fall blooming, Jul 99:30, Jul 05:30, Nov

16:27 fall planting, Sep 99:8, Nov 99:9, Sep 03:8,

Sep 12:44

flashy summer, Mar 05:26 forcing, Sep 00:7, Sep 02:8, Sep 04:9

heirloom, Nov 01:44, Nov 12:36, Mar 16:32

herbs, Sep 05:20 naturalizing, Sep 02:8, Sep 04:9

for shade tree gardens, Jul 03:29

spring, Sep 05:43 storing, May 02:7, Sep 02:8, Sep 04:9

transplanting, Nov 14:23

winter color, Nov 03:17

Bumelia lanuginose (iron wood) hardy native, Mar 09:25

Burbank, Luther, Nov 05:43 burning for weed control, Mar 11:43

Burns, Gillian

my English garden, Mar 17:13 Burns, Robert

Alternanthera "Little Ruby,' Jan 16:32

ant-eating protozoa, Jan 05:42 blackberry, May 13:24

Helenium 'Dakota Gold,' Sep 10:38

'Lowrey's Legacy' cenizo, Sep 12:24 mosquito control, Jul 03:44

Pierce's disease, Nov 06:12

Satsuma mandarin hybrid 'Arctic Frost,' Jan 16:20

'Tycoon" tomato, Jul 14:24

burro tail. see Sedum bush beans, May 10:17

Bush, Carolyn (gardener), Jan 05:24

Butia capitata (pindo or jelly palm) hardy palm, Jan 08:32

Butler, Larry (Boggy Creek Farm), Jul 08:26,

Sep 08:5, Nov 11:23 butter bean, Mar 10:50, May 10:14, Jul 10:5

buttercup. see Ranunculus; Turnera ulmifolia

butterflies attracting, May 99:34, Jul 00:11, Sep 01:8,

Mar 04:50, Jul 05:36, Jul 13:26, Sep 17:27

beneficial, May 13:22


caterpillars, May 00:11, 20, Jul 06:24

Dale Clark, Mar 02:12 encourage puddling, May 99:36

fall blooms for, Sep 02:34

favorites, May 10:45 houses, Jul 07:50

identification corrections, May 07:5

instant garden, Jan 14:36 larvae, Nov 14:5

Monarch, Jul 99:49, Jul 03:50, Mar 16:40,

May 16:5 nectar recipe, May 09:50

Oleander Acres RV Park garden, Mar 17:18

passion vine for, Mar 00:12, May 00:11 plants for, Sep 99:8, Mar 02:15, Jul 02:29,

Mar 07:14

swallowtail, May 16:45 Vitex and Plumbago for, Nov 05:39

butterfly bush. see Buddleia

butterfly flower. see Schizanthus pinnatus

butterfly vine. see Mascagnia macroptera

butterfly weed. see Asclepias

buttonbush. see Cephalanthus occidentalis

Buxus (boxwood) pruning, Jan 05:46

Byrne, David (plant breeder), Sep 14:30, Mar 15:38, May 16:26

C cabbage

All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:36

Chinese, Jul 99:40, Jul 04:17, Nov 12:22, Sep

17:16 for fall color, Jul 16:28

'Gonzales,' Nov 00:7, Jan 01:7

Napa, Nov 12:22 plant profile, Sep 02:40, Sep 06:36, Sep

12:14

recommended varieties, Jan 99:7


storing, May 14:16

white, Jul 04:15 winter color, Nov 03:15

cabbage loopers, Jan 99:29, Jan 02:6, Jul 12:50,

Sep 13:4

cactus see also Agave; Cryptocereus anthonyanus;

Schlumbergera Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and

Botanical Garden, Nov 07:40

harvest of wild, May 03:50 information resources, Mar 03:5

low-water choices, Nov 12:21 night-blooming, Jul 13:25


tough, broad-spectrum, Sep 17:34 winter-hardy, Nov 09:40

Caesalpinia mexicana (Mexican poinciana), Sep 00:46 pulcherrima (red bird of paradise or pride of

Barbados), Jul 02:7, May 05:45, Jul 07:25,

47

cages anchoring, May 00:7

building wire, Mar 99:16 re-bar, Jul 99:5

tomato, Mar 06:32, May 06:5

Caillet, Marie Louisiana irises, Jul 00:40

Caillet, Marie (Iris Lady), Mar 01:34

calabash, May 02:37

Caladium color for shade, May 99:6 overwintering, Nov 04:8, Sep 06:9

plant profile, Mar 99:18, May 15:14

plant trials, Sep 06:31 saving tubers, Sep 02:7, Sep 04:8

for summer color, May 14:38

Calamagrostis fall flowering, Jul 05:30

calcium correcting deficiency, Sep 04:5 eggshells for birds, Sep 00:49

Calendula for natural skin care, Jan 03:28 officinalis (pot marigold)

for health, Mar 02:38, Jul 07:32

for pets, May 04:22 plant profile, Jul 03:23, Mar 05:33

preserving, Jul 05:23

spring reseeding annual, Nov 01:29

caliche growing successfully on, Jan 02:5

removing, May 05:46

Calliandra californica (fairy duster) drought resistant, Mar 07:26

Callicarpa americana (American beautyberry) berries, Sep 09:5, Nov 12:26

for fall color, Jul 03:42 landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:43


Post Oak Woodlands native, Jan 00:20 for shade, Jan 99:8

Callirhoe involucrata (winecup) for Blackland Prairies gardens, Jul 99:28 managing, Jul 00:39

Callistemon (bottle bush) rigidus, Mar 09:24 sublates, Sep 04:48

Calonyction aculeatum (moon vine) nocturnal flower, Jul 09:47

Calylophus (sundrops) drummondianus var. berlandieri, Jul 11:37

hartwegii, May 01:41

Camellia fertilizing, Mar 00:11, Mar 03:10

japonica, Jul 02:45 language of flowers, Jan 02:31

Camp Howze (Cooke County), Nov 03:12

Campanula trumpet-flowered, May 13:28

Campsis (trumpet vine) getting rid of, Jul 17:50 for hummingbirds, butterflies, Jul 00:11

identification, Jul 02:47

maintenance free vine, Nov 98:7 radicans (trumpet creeper), Sep 00:35, May

03:32, May 13:29

candle plant. see Plectranthus candletree. see Cassia

candyleaf. see Stevia

canker bacterial, Jan 99:44, Mar 99:8

hypoxolyn, Sep 03:46

Canna cool plant for hot months, Jul 01:19

flaccida, Nov 08:46

x generalis, Mar 03:43 for summer color, May 04:27

'Tropical Salmon' (new for 2002), Jan 02:50

cantaloupe


assessing ripeness, May 13:13 lessons from the pros, Jan 00:39


volunteers growing on caliche, Jan 02:5 Capen, Jane

back porch garden, Sep 07:13

Capsicum annuum (chili pequin) berries, Nov 12:28

caraway. see Carum carvi

cardinal climber vine. see Ipomoea cardinal creeper. see Ipomoea

cardinal flower. see Lobelia

cardinal spear. see Odontonema strictum

Carex comans (New Zealand sedge) plant profile, Jan 12:31

Carino, Ernesto and Blanca (nursery owners), May 02:20

Carls, Elizabeth

confessions of a northern gardener, Sep 09:35

carnation. see Dianthus

Carpenter, Jack (daylily gardener), May 05:26

Carpenter, Mark (daylily farmer), Mar 14:36

carrot All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:36

fall crop, Jul 99:20 germinating, Jan 99:28

plant profile, Jul 11:15, Jul 16:14 root length, Sep 06:7

Russian, Jul 05:50

saving seeds of, Jul 02:21 seed sources, Nov 01:46

thinning, Nov 99:6

'Thumbelina,' Mar 01:7 Carter, Charlotte (gardener), Nov 10:40

Carum carvi (caraway) for health, Mar 02:38

Carver, George Washington, 1864-1943, Nov

02:42, Nov 05:43

Caryopteris x clandonensis (bluebeard) for butterflies, Sep 02:37

Himalayan native, Sep 06:20

cascaders (plants), Jan 14:40

Cassia alata (candletree), Nov 16:5

corymbosa (Argentina senna), Jan 07:24 cast-iron plant. see Aspidistra

Castilleja indivisa (Indian paintbrush) for health, Nov 00:42

castor bean. see Ricinus comminis

Castroville (poppies of), Jan 17:20

Catalpa bignonioides, Jul 13:45

speciosa, Jul 13:45

catalpa worms, Jul 13:45

caterpillars see also butterflies

growing dill for, Mar 13:13 on roses, Nov 00:47

underwing moth, Jan 05:47

Catharanthus roseus heat-loving, Jul 07:23

catnip. see Nepeta

cats, Nov 14:29, Nov 17:13 cattail. see Typha

cauliflory, Nov 16:21

cauliflower All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:36

blanching, Jan 01:47

plant profile, Sep 02:40, Sep 04:14, Jul 10:14


planting dates, Sep 08:5

recipes, Nov 02:5, Jul 10:19, Sept 04:16 recommended varieties, Jan 99:7

storing, May 14:16

cedar deodar, Nov 08:35

eastern red

as Christmas tree, Nov 08:34 fast-growing, Jan 02:46

landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:44

true native? Jan 04:45

celery, Chinese Asian green, Nov 12:24

cool season green, Jul 99:42 plant profile, May 02:15, Jul 04:15

Celosia (cockscomb) cristata, Jan 10:46 drought-proof plant, Mar 06:25

for fall color, Jul 16:26

'Fresh Look,' Jan 06:29

groundcover, May 07:8

identification, Mar 10:50

plant trials, Sep 06:29 preserving, Jul 05:23

cemeteries artificial vs. live plants in, Nov 04:44 plantings, May 08:45, Nov 15:20

cenizos. see Salvia

Centaurea cineraria (dusty miller) preserving, Jul 05:23

Centella asiatica (gotu kola) for southern physic garden, Jul 02:16

centipede grass plant profile, May 05:17

Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush) to attract beneficials, Nov 99:29

for bog water garden, Nov 08:47 fragrant, May 13:41

nectar plant, Mar 07:16

Ceratoides lanata (winterfat) for High Plains gardens, Jan 99:21

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (hardy

plumbago) xeric plant, Jan 07:5

Cercis. see red bud

cereal rye cover crop, Nov 04:7

cereus, night blooming. see Selenicereus

grandiflora

Cestrum x hybrida, Jul 09:47

nocturnum, Mar 09:46, May 13:42 parqui (willow-leaved jessamine), Jan 07:24

Chaenomeles (flowering quince) japonica

hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41


reversion, Sep 16:39 speciosa, Jul 02:45


Chamaerops humilis (Mediterranean fan

palm) hardy palm, Jan 08:32

chameleon plant. see Houttuynia cordata chamomile. see Anthemis nobilis

chamomile, German. see Matricaria

chamomilla

Chappell Hill Lavender Farm (Washington

County), Jan 07:26

Chasmanthium latifolium (inland seaoats)

cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:47

native as ornamental, Jul 08:39, Nov 98:21 chaste tree. see Vitex

che tree plant profile, Mar 09:26

Chenault, Edith A.

pest detectives, Sep 03:45

Chenopodium album, Sep 11:43

ambrosioides (epazote), May 01:34, Jan

07:34, Jan 09:30 edible weed, Mar 04:18, May 18:18

cherry, Barbados. see Malpighia glabra

cherry laurel. see Prunus

cherry, sweet dwarf varieties, Mar 12:23

plant profile, Sep 07:20 pruning, Jan 11:33

chicken salad, May 13:32

chickens egg culture, Mar 11:13

in the garden, May 02:44, Mar 04:13, May

07:41 for grasshopper control, Sep 02:5

managing for success, May 13:21

chickweed. see Stellaria media

Chihuahuan Desert gardening in, Jan 13:40

Chihuahuan Desert Gardens (El Paso), May

01:38, May 15:31

Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and

Botanical Garden (Fort Davis), Nov 07:40,

May 15:31

children see also education

five senses garden, Sep 10:12

gardening with, Sep 99:24, Nov 01:36, Jan 04:12

Eli Kubieck, Mar 17:26

magical plants for, Jan 08:44, Mar 08:5 nature brings benefits, Nov 05:47

the weird-stuff garden, Nov 09:12

Chile, flowers from, Jan 07:24 chile peppers. see pepper

chili pequin. see Capsicum annuum

chill periods fruit tree, May 01:10, Jan 02:36

tulips, Jul 99:46, Jul 00:47, Sep 00:46

Chilopsis linearis (desert willow) blooming tree, Sep 04:42

Chinaberry. see Melia azedarach

chinch bugs, Jul 00:32, May 01:11, Jul 03:10, May 06:49, Jul 06:11

Chinese tallow, Sep 03:5

Chionanthus. see fringetree chives. see Allium

Chloroleucon ebano (Texas ebony)

for wildlife, Mar 09:25

Chlorophytum (spider plant) trailer, Jan 14:43

chocolate, Jul 10:46 Christmas cactus. see Schlumbergera

Christmas herbs, Nov 10:37

Christmas trees ban on live, Nov 04:43

boxwood, Nov 07:29

grow your own, Nov 08:32 keeping healthy, Nov 04:12

Chrysanthemum x 'Country Girl,' Sep 04:43, Jul 06:33

crazy for daisies, Nov 05:26

for fall color, Jul 16:28 Hostyn Hill Greenhouses, Nov 14:35

parthenium (feverfew)

for health, Nov 00:42 insect repellant herb, May 04:22

for southern physic garden, Jul 02:16

pinching back, Jul 99:7 propagating, May 02:8

Chrysopogon zizanioidies (vetiver) for scent, Nov 09:19

Chukran, Bobbi A.

comfrey, Jul 00:14

herbs anywhere, Mar 00:22 herbs that take the heat, May 00:36

cicadas, Jul 04:50

cigar plant, Mexican. see Cuphea cilantro. see Coriandrum

Cirsium for butterflies, Sep 17:33

cisterns, May 16:35

citrangequat, May 09:37

citrus see also names of specific kinds of citrus

composting, Mar 08:50, Jul 08:5

container-grown, May 04:36, Nov 09:20 dwarf varieties, Mar 12:22

fertilizing, May 99:9, Jul 99:8, Sep 06:50 harvesting, Nov 05:10

insulating, Nov 98:8

for North Texas, May 11:30 John Panzarella, Sep 03:18, Jan 12:4, Sep

13:26

planting, Nov 98:8 pruning, May 00:10, Jan 11:33

for Rio Grande Valley, Jan 12:4

for Texas, Mar 07:50, May 09:34 in vermicompost, May 08:5

white flies on, May 00:10, Jul 03:9

Clark, Dale (butterfly man), Mar 02:12 Clark, Harley (organic gardener), Nov 06:28

Clark, John

brown garden snail, Mar 05:24 Japanese loquat, Mar 06:28

lotus, Mar 04:28

Clark's Farm, Nov 06:28

clay garden beds in, Jul 10:50

kaolin for pest control, May 10:43 Claytonia perfoliata, May 16:17

Clematis x cartmanii, Mar 13:26 crispa, Mar 13:28

drummondii, Mar 13:28

hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:42 marmoraria, Mar 13:26

paniculata, Jan 05:46, Jul 06:33, Mar 13:26

pitcheri, Mar 13:28 Sibley Nature Center, Jan 13:36


ternifolia, Jul 06:33, Mar 13:26, May 13:42 texensis, Mar 13:28

viticella, Mar 13:29

Cleome hasslerana (spider flower) nocturnal flower, Jul 09:47

Clint, Morris "Chip" (horticulturist), Jul

00:26 cloning figs, Mar 08:40

clothing overalls, Sep 16:45


clover, bush. see Lespedeza thunbergii

clover, crimson. see Trifolium incarnatum coal mining, Sep 15:50

Coastal Bend Composters and Organic

Gardeners (Rockport), Sep 15:36

Cocculus carolinus (Carolina snailseed) landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:43

cockscomb. see Celosia Cogdell, John R.

gardening for buried treasure, Jul 08:13

summers down on the farm, Nov 07:13 Cohen, Adrienne

aquaponics, Mar 12:36

Colburn, Cherie Foster living with low spots, Mar 00:34

Colchicum autumnale (autumn crocus) not recommended, Jul 99:33

cold frames see also greenhouses

hardening off transplants, Nov 03:40

for season extension, Sep 02:29, Nov 05:28

ventilating, Nov 00:7

Cole, Charles fall webworms, Jul 99:16

cole crops, Sep 02:38, Sep 03:6, Jul 15:14

coleus. see Solenostemon scutellarioides

Coleus x hybridus heat-loving, May 06:46 for summer color, May 14:37

collards fall planting, Jul 08:18 great greens, Nov 10:14

plant profile, Sep 02:41, Sep 07:34

second chance, Jul 12:42 storing, May 14:17

summer green, May 18:18

collars see also cutworms

newspaper, Sep 01:38

for pest control, May 01:22

Colocasia esculenta (elephant ears) blooming in Zone 8, Nov 02:5

growing, Jul 02:46 invasive species, Mar 07:43

color black plants, Jul 10:26 blue, Sep 09:26, Jul 14:29

combinations that work, Mar 04:43

fall, Jul 16:26 flowering plants, Jul 14:26

green, Mar 11:30, Jul 14:28

perennial combos, Sep 09:39 plants for winter, Nov 03:14

purple, Jul 14:31

red, Jul 14:27 summer foliage, May 14:36

therapeutic value, Jul 99:34

yellow, Jul 14:27 columbine. see Aquilegia

Combretum indicum (Rangoon creeper), May

17:29 comfrey. see Symphytum

community gardens Brownwood Community Garden, Jan 13:50,

Mar 13:33

Coppell Community Gardens, Nov 02:13

in Dallas, Sep 05:26 Festival Beach Community Garden, Nov

15:26

for Food Bank of Corpus Christi, Mar 09:18

The Giving Field, Jul 16:42

Last Organic Outpost, Nov 14:42 San Antonio, Nov 11:38

San Antonio Area Schools Classroom Garden

Program, Nov 05:47 Shiloh Field, May 18:40

Sunshine Community Gardens, Jan 14:14

Sustainable Food Center, Jul 09:43 Urban Harvest, Jan 07:20, Nov 07:31, Nov

09:44

Urban Patchwork (neighborhood gardens), Mar 12:32

community-supported agriculture, Mar 16:20

companion planting native plants, Mar 15:4

primer, Sep 01:30, Nov 01:5

squash bug control, Jan 02:24 trap cropping, Jan 02:20

compost and composting see also fertilizers and fertilizing

bat guano, Jan 10:50

bird litter, Jan 99:44

citrus, Mar 08:50, Jul 08:5 Coastal Bend Composters and Organic

Gardeners, Sep 15:36

Compost Outpost, May 04:25 compost tea, May 11:42

cotton seed meal in, Sep 99:6 definition of, May 00:6, Nov 01:17

earthworms in, Jul 99:46

easy, Jan 18:40 fall, Jul 05:14, Nov 98:6

fire ants in, May 09:50, Mar 10:50

grubs in, Jul 09:50 hugelkultur, Mar 15:35

humate, Sep 99:14

in keyhole gardens, Mar 14:14 for lawns, Jan 03:10

leaves, Nov 99:34, Sep 02:10, Nov 02:11,

Sep 03:11, Nov 04:12 low budget, Mar 13:20

manure, May 99:11, Jan 01:7, Nov 08:50

McGovern Centennial Gardens, Nov 17:22 mushroom culture, Nov 09:30

newsprint in, Jan 03:46

plant material, Jul 11:24 primer, Nov 99:34, Nov 06:40, Nov 07:32,

Sep 12:30, Nov 12:5, Nov 15:38, Nov

98:14 recipe, Jul 04:25

versus rotting, Jan 00:6

sheet, Nov 99:35, Nov 06:22, Nov 07:36, Jan 18:41

spontaneous combustion of, May 01:47

tumblers, May 04:5 vermicompost, May 08:5, Nov 11:34, Jan

16:34

walkway, Nov 99:35, Nov 06:23, Jan 12:42, Jan 18:41

woodchips, Jan 99:44

coneflower. see Echinacea coneflower, yellow. see Rudbeckia

Confederate rose. see Hibiscus

conifers. see evergreens

Conoclinium greggii (mistflower) fall bloomer, Nov 16:26

plant profile, Nov 12:48, Sep 16:48 seed source, Jan 13:5

Consolida (larkspur) classic annual not perennial, Nov 11:5

fall planting, Sep 12:44

plant profile, Jan 04:13 spring reseeding annual, Nov 01:26

containers see also seeds berries in, Jan 99:32, Mar 99:5

cattle trough gardening, Sep 00:6

cedar planters, May 18:5 citrus in, May 04:36

frost protection, Sep 06:42

fruit in, Nov 09:20 herbs in, May 08:23, Jul 10:20

lightweight, May 03:11

plants for, Mar 02:8 polyethylene barrels, Nov 12:5

protection from sun, Nov 14:50

salad greens in, Nov 01:13 in shade tree gardens, Jul 03:28

tire planters, Sep 11:44

tires, Jan 03:45

vegetable gardens, Sep 11:5, Jul 12:14, Jul

13:50

versatile addition to landscape, May 02:7 for water gardens, Sep 99:26

winter edible, Nov 05:40

Convolvulus (morning glory) flowering vine, Mar 14:33

'Royal Ensign,' May 01:8

Cooperia drummondia (rain lily), May 01:41

fall blooming bulb, Jul 99:33 pedunculata (Giant prairie lily), Jul 06:36,

Jul 09:46, Jan 17:5


Copeland, Dan and Gretchen (Sweet Berry

Farm), Sep 02:12

Coppell Community Gardens, Nov 02:13 copper plant. see Acalypha wilkesiana

coral bean. see Erythrina

coral bells. see Heuchera coral vine. see Antigonon leptopus

coralberry. see Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Corby, Chris S. All-Texas selections, Jul 01:36

cantaloupe, May 01:42

cloning figs, Mar 08:40 coffee and St. Augustine grass, Nov 11:4

cool season cilantro, Nov 99:38

double rows, May 03:33 fall gardening, Jul 02:26

garden planning, Jan 99:25, Jul 99:17, Jan

00:23 grasshoppers, May 00:24

hairy vetch, Sep 99:42

Opening Lines January garden musings, Jan 13:4

asparagus, May 16:4

attracting insect-eaters, Jul 02:4 bag gardening, Mar 13:4

bees, May 07:4

changes to Texas Gardener, May 18:4 Christmas reminder, Mar 05:4

citrus search, Jan 12:4

companion planting, Mar 15:4 compost and composting, Jan 02:4, Mar

04:4

container gardening, Jan 09:4 Sam Cotner, Mar 11:4

cover crops, Nov 15:4

cutworms, Nov 17:4


death of a tree, Jul 01:4

deer, May 05:4 drought, Nov 99:4, May 06:4, May 07:4,

Nov 09:4

drought, the upside, Jul 11:4 easy gardening, Sep 06:4

environmental plants, Sep 00:4

everyone's a gardener, Mar 18:4 fall gardening, Jul 05:4, Jul 08:4, Sep

10:4

fertilizers and fertilizing, Jan 00:4, Sep 11:4

first garden, Nov 12:4

first tomato, Jul 14:4 frost protection, Nov 17:4

garden intruders I have known, May 15:4

gardening and family, Nov 01:4, Jan 08:4 gardening follies, Jan 11:4

grilling recipes, Jul 99:4

harvest time, summer color, May 14:4

health benefits of gardening, May 08:4,

Sep 09:4

Lillian Illig, Nov 08:4 inside Austin garden tours, Mar 17:4

lawns and drought, Mar 07:4

making gardening enjoyable, Sep 04:4 manure, Sep 11:4

"Memories from a Hill Country Garden," Sep 16:4


16:4 moving plants, Sep 03:4

mutiny of the bounty, May 11:4

my half-and-half garden, Jan 15:4 native plants, May 02:4, Mar 08:4, Sep

08:4

Dr Joe Novvak, Nov 02:4 nurseries, May 01:4, Jan 06:4

off-season trips, Nov 00:4

organic gardening, Sep 99:4, Mar 03:4, Nov 05:4

organic matter, Mar 09:4

pests and pest control, Jul 07:4 Plant a Row for the Poor, Mar 14:4

plant selection, Jul 10:4

planting memories, Sep 14:4 pollination, Jul 00:4

potatoes, Jul 13:4

power steering in the garden, Mar 10:4 pumpkins, May 17:4

raised beds, May 10:4

real Texas gardeners, Sep 12:4 Recession Gardens, May 09:4

roses, Nov 07:4, Nov 17:4

row cover, digital edition, Sep 13:4 "shareloom" okra, Jan 17:4

snakes, Nov 04:4, Sep 17:4

spring gardening, Mar 99:4, Jan 03:4, Jan 07:4, Ma 00:4

summer gardening, Jul 03:4, Jul 09:4

summertime checklist, Jul 17:4 Texas challenges, May 00:4

Texas Gardener, May 99:4, Jan 01:4, Mar

01:4, Jul 06:4, Jul 16:4, Nov 98:4 Texas summer, May 12:4

Texas Superstars, Jan 99:4, Sep 05:4

think like a Texan, Nov 16:4 thinning, Nov 17:4

tomatoes, Sep 02:4, Jan 04:4, Sep 08:4,

Jul 12:4, May 13:4, Jan 14:4, Mar 15:4,

Jan 16:4

tomatoes saved from storm, Nov 14:4 trees, Jan 05:4, Sep 07:4, Sep 15:4

turf grass, Mar 02:4

wasps in the pea patch, Jan 18:4 water conservation, Sep 01:4, Jul 04:4,

Nov 06:4

weeds and weeding, May 03:4, Jul 07:4 Where did the years go? Nov 10:4

wildflower pride, Jul 15:4

wildlife, May 04:4, Mar 06:4 winter gardening, Nov 03:4

winter sports for gardeners, Nov 13:4

zone pushing, Mar 12:4 sweet pea, Sep 01:40

transplants: worth the trouble? Jan 02:35

vegetables beans, May 99:38

beets, Sep 05:32

broccoli, Sep 99:22

cucumbers, Mar 99:40

fall pepper primer, Jul 00:17

fall vegetable gardening, Jul 01:32 lettuce, Nov 99:30

okra, May 00:14

portable salad garden, Nov 01:13 potatoes, Jan 01:20

pumpkins, May 06:20 second season, Jul 07:14

softball-sized onions, Nov 05:36

spinach, Sep 00:24 squash, Mar 00:14

tomatoes, May 99:26, Mar 01:16, Jul

03:14, Mar 05:44 cordials, Nov 08:29

Cordyline australis (giant dracaena) plant profile, Jan 12:28 zone-pushing, Mar 09:42

Coreopsis (tickseed) auriculata, Jan 08:30 delphiniifolia, Jan 08:29

grandiflora, Jan 08:28

lanceolata, Jan 08:28 plant profile, Jan 08:28

rosea, Jan 08:30

for summer color, May 04:27 tinctoria, Jan 08:28

verticillata, Jan 08:28

winter color, Nov 03:17 coriander, Vietnamese. see Polygonum

odoratum

Coriandrum (cilantro or coriander) Asian herb, Jan 08:22

cold tolerance, Mar 13:50

cool-season culinary herb, Sep 09:30 harvesting, May 99:20

Mexican herb, Jan 07:34, Jan 09:29

not cold hardy, May 07:5 plant profile, Nov 99:38

recipes, Nov 99:39

corkscrew flower. see Vigna caracalla corms, Jul 99:33, Nov 14:23

corn All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:36 'Country Gentleman' (shoe-peg), May 99:6

fertilizing, May 06:6

gooseneck maize, Nov 06:13 history, May 13:45

hybrids of sweet, Jan 99:41


and pokeberry, Sep 14:45

recipes, May 13:47, May 18:19 storing, May 14:17

Supersweet (Sh2) types, Mar 06:7

sweet, Mar 11:14 timing of planting, Mar 04:6, Mar 06:7

corn earworm, Nov 99:46

corn gluten meal, Jul 03:38, Mar 11:40, Nov 12:50

corn salad cool season green, Jul 99:42, Nov 08:42 for special salads, Mar 00:7

correctional facility gardens Killeen Municipal Court Garden, Jul 14:20 and rehabilitation, Sep 17:13

Travis County Correctional Complex, Jan

12:36

Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass) ornamental, Jul 08:39

Cosmos 'Cosmic Orange,' Nov 99:10, Mar 00:8

reseeding, Jul 02:5

costmary. see Tanacetum Cotner, Sam, Mar 11:4, May 11:5

cottage gardens, Jan 02:44, Nov 05:22, Nov

15:45

cotton plant profile, May 99:12 seed source, Jan 07:48, Mar 07:5

cotton root rot apple trees and, Nov 00:12 on Texas sage, May 00:11

cottonseed meal definition, Jul 03:38 nitrogen source, Sep 99:6

Coulan, George, Mar 18:26

cover crops. see green manure cowpea, May 03:42, May 06:29, May 11:14,

May 16:16

Cox, Paul, Sep 12:24 crabgrass, Jul 00:46

Crane, Jeanie

knowing you're a gardener, Jul 04:12 crapemyrtle, see Lagerstroemia indica

Crataegus (hawthorn) for health, May 07:30 landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:43

tracyi, May 15:29

cream pea, Mar 03:46 creeping Jenny. see Lysimachia

creosote bush. see Larrea tridentata

crepe myrtle. see Lagerstroemia indica

cress cool season green, Jul 99:42, Nov 08:42

Crews, Brenda Chihuahuan Desert Gardens, May 01:38

Sweet Berry Farm, Sep 02:12

Crinum americanum, Nov 08:46

'Bradley,' Jul 04:44

bulbispermum, Jul 04:43, Nov 12:38 cemetery plantings, May 08:46

cool plant for hot months, Jul 01:20

cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:46 x digweedii, Jul 04:44

'Ellen Bosanquet,' Jul 04:44

fall blooming bulb, Jul 99:33 heirloom, Nov 12:38

x herbertii, Nov 01:45, Jul 04:44

for moonlight garden, Mar 04:39


'Mrs. James Hendry,' Jul 04:44

nocturnal flower, Jul 09:46 plant profile, Jul 04:43

x powellii, Jul 04:44

scented plant, Mar 09:46

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora, Sep 07:43

masoniorum, Sep 07:43

Crocus sativus, Jul 99:32, Jul 00:8, Sep 00:6

winter color, Nov 03:17 crocus, autumn. see Colchicum autumnale;

Sternbergia lutea

crossvine. see Bignonia crownbeard, white. see Verbesina virginica

Crumpler, Jeanette

wildlife capers, May 03:18

Cryptocereus anthonyanus (ric rac cactus) identification, Sep 05:5

Ctenanthe lubbesiana 'Tropical Dragon' Texas tough, Jan 06:30

cucumber All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37 bitter, Sep 09:50, Nov 09:50

crossed with melon, Nov 00:49, Nov 11:50

'Diva,' Nov 01:6 frescas, May 15:24

moisture stress, Sep 05:47 for natural skin care, Jan 03:29

no fruit set, Nov 08:50

pickles, Jan 16:42 pickleworm, Sep 12:50, Jan 17:50

plant profile, Mar 99:40, Mar 10:14

pollination, Jul 12:50 storing, May 14:17

white flies on, Nov 00:46

cucumber beetles controlling, Jul 02:46

on melons, Jan 00:40

cucurbit yellow vine disease (CYVD), Jan 02:23

Cucurbita (gourd) faetidissima, Jan 99:5 plant profile, May 04:40, Jan 12:32

cumin. see Cuminum cyminum

Cuminum cyminum (cumin) Mexican herb, Jan 07:32

Cuphea hyssopifolia (Mexican or false heather), Sep

10:27, May 11:5

ignea (firecracker or cigar plant), Jul 09:48,

Sep 10:27 llavea (bat-faced or tiny-mice plant), Jul

07:24, Sep 10:27, May 14:48

micropetala (Mexican cigar plant) fall bloomer, Sep 04:43, Jul 05:29, Jul

06:34, Nov 16:25

Mexican native, Jan 01:32 new varieties, May 07:8


plant profile, Sep 10:26 rosea (Mexican creeping cuphea), Sep 10:28

viscosissima (blue waxweed), May 07:27

Curcuma domestica (turmeric), Sep 02:31

petiolata (hidden cone ginger), Sep 06:21

zedoaria (zedoary), Sep 02:32, Sep 06:21 currant, Indian. see Symphoricarpos

orbiculatus

Cuscuta japonica

parasitic plant, Jul 14:50

cut flowers favorites, Jan 10:45

garlic umbrels in arrangements, Nov 15:5

long-lasting, Jul 00:8 preserving, Jul 01:7

for profit, Mar 03:40, Nov 11:18

raising, Sep 02:46 wire chicken basket, Sep 13:5

cuttings flower, Nov 08:24 fruit tree, Jan 10:35

hardwood, Jan 10:35

root, Jul 02:23, Jan 10:36 softwood, Jan 04:41, Jan 10:35

tender plants, Sep 02:9

types of, Nov 17:27

cutworms collars, Mar 00:44, May 01:22, Sep 01:38,

Jul 02:46

seedlings and, Jan 99:29

spent stalks to deter, Nov 17:4

Cyclamen for exotic look, Nov 01:7



Cymbopogon (lemon grass) citrates, Jan 01:43, Jan 08:22, Jul 11:36 flexuosus, Jul 11:36

cypress Arizona, Nov 08:34 bald, Jul 03:43, Jan 04:45, Sep 15:28

Leyland, Nov 08:33

Montezuma, Jan 08:47 standing, Sep 02:13

Swane's golden Italian, Nov 08:34

cypress vine. see Ipomoea

D daffodil. see Narcissus

Dahlia dwarf varieties, Mar 07:50

Dailey, Bob

cats and the art of cloning roses, Nov 17:13

daisy, blackfoot. see Melampodium leucanthum daisy, Copper canyon. see Tagetes

daisy, cutleaf. see Engelmannia pinnatifida

daisy, four nerve. see Hymenoxys daisy, huisache. see Amblyolepsis setigera

daisy, lazy. see Aphanostephus skirrhobasis

daisy, Lindheimer. see Lindheimera texana daisy, Swan River. see Brachyscome (or

Brachycome)

Dalechampia dioscoreifolia (winged beauty

vine) exotic vine, May 06:25

Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens plant trials, Nov 04:26, Sep 06:26

tested Texas tough, Jan 06:28 Jimmy Turner (director), May 07:14

Dallas community gardens, Sep 05:26

Dallas Friendship West Baptist Church

community garden, Nov 11:39

dallis grass, Nov 99:46, Mar 00:46

Daly, Marie and Autry (gardeners), Jan 14:47 damping-off, Jan 99:29

damsel bug, Mar 03:20

damselflies as beneficial insects, May 03:26

dandelion dwarf, Jan 00:36

edible weed, Mar 04:18

for health, Jul 07:32, Mar 17:24

invasive species, May 02:41

Dasylirion (sotol) for Trans Pecos gardens, May 99:16

Datura (angel's trumpet) versus Brugmansia, Jul 05:5

in containers, Mar 01:9

nocturnal flower, May 01:49, Mar 04:38, Jul 09:46, Jul 13:23


Davallia trichomanoides (rabbit foot fern) fern for Texas, Mar 08:25

Dave's Garden (website), Jan 09:42

Davis, Bob Grandmother's strawberries, May 06:13

harmony in the garden, Mar 99:13

of mockers and men, Sep 09:13 truck patch garden, May 08:13

of wrens and men, Mar 03:14

Davis, Robert

going nuts over pecans, Sep 12:13

Day of the Dead herbs, Nov 10:36

daylily. see Hemerocallis decks, gardening on, Nov 00:18

decomposed granite as soil amendment, Nov 15:5

deer deterring, Jul 00:8, Nov 00:8, Nov 01:7, Nov

14:29

dogs for control, Mar 07:5

gardening in deer country, Jan 07:14, Mar 07:5, Jan 18:32

-proof plants, Sep 00:46, Mar 03:45

-resistant plants, Jul 02:29, Mar 03:45 spider lilies and, Nov 05:46, Jan 06:5

Vitex and Plumbago to repel, Nov 05:39

Deeringer, Martha five senses garden, Sep 10:12

the weird-stuff garden, Nov 09:12

Deleon, Becky my greenfolks, Jan 09:12

Delonix (poinciana) for hummingbirds, butterflies, Jul 00:12

Delosperma cooperi heat-loving, Jul 07:23

Delphinium carolinianum (prairie larkspur), Jan 04:21


'Shy Lights Mix' (new for 2002), Jan 02:50 Denson, Pam

school-gardening program, Nov 16:40

depression (disorder) try "green" for the "blues," Nov 15:13

desert yaupon. see Schaefferia cuneifolia

design see also ornaments

elements in cottage gardens, Nov 05:25

elements of, Mar 05:42 garden planning, Jan 99:30, Jan 00:24

with grasses, Jul 08:39

kitchen garden, Sep 11:20 in mass, Jan 17:20

process of, Nov 99:28

reinventing a front yard, May 09:13 devil's shoestring, see Nolina

dewdrop, golden. see Duranta

DeYoung, Harold (cactus devotee), Nov 03:30

Dianella tasmancia (flax lily) Texas tough, Jan 06:31

Dianthus (carnation)


'Amazon' series, Jan 06:29

for fall color, Jul 16:28 'Melody Pink,' Mar 00:8


plant trials, Sep 06:28 preserving, Jul 05:23


diatomaceous earth for pest control, May 01:24

Dichondra argentea trailer, Jan 14:40

Dichromena colorata (white topped sedge) for bog water garden, Nov 08:46

Dicliptera suberecta (hummingbird plant) plant profile, May 10:48

Dietes (African or butterfly iris) bicolor, Sep 07:43, Nov 13:26 cutting back, Sep 09:50

iridioides, Sep 07:42

Digitalis (foxglove) bell-flowered, May 13:26

plant profile, Jul 03:24, Mar 05:34

for southern physic garden, Jul 02:16 dill. see Anethum

Dioscorea bulbifera (air potato vine), May

17:29

diseases see also fungal diseases; names of specific

diseases or plants

cycles of, Nov 12:16

lawns, Jul 00:33 managing naturally, May 10:40

organic control, May 00:39, Jul 05:16

troubleshooting, May 17:40 vegetable garden, Mar 17:43

dividing fall blooming perennials, Mar 04:9

Dixondale Farms (Carrizo Springs), Sep

02:24, Sep 14:20

Dobbs, Don (Willhite Seeds), Sep 02:24 dock, curly. see Rumex crispus

dodder, Jul 14:50

dogs for deer control, Mar 07:5

Greg Grant's, Mar 13:45, Mar 14:45

landscape destruction and, Jul 01:42

dogwood blooming tree, Sep 04:39

germinating, Jul 99:46 landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:43


transplanting, Jan 06:46

Dolichos lablab (hyacinth bean) annual vine, Jan 03:40, May 11:29, May

17:29 edible, Sep 00:47

for green bean house, May 03:32

donkey's tail. see Sedum

dormant oils on fruit trees, Jan 02:9

for pest control, May 01:23 Dormon, Caroline (horticulturist), Nov 14:45

Doty, Gloria

Kari and Jim Shockley, Nov 14:30 double rows, May 03:33

Dowlearn, Paul

my grandma's garden, Jan 02:11 dracaena. see Cordyline australis

Dracunculus vulgaris (Viagra lily) mystery plant, Jul 04:48

dragon tree. see Paulownia

dragonflies as beneficial insects, May 03:26

profile, May 08:30

dragonhead, false. see Physostegia drainage solutions, Mar 00:34, Mar 16:50, Mar

17:50

Drake, Cindy reclaiming the prairie, Jul 05:13

Drees, Bastiaan M.

ant farming to fight fire ants, Sep 99:20 bugs, beneficial to beastly (w/John Jackman),

May 00:18

dried flowers, Jul 05:20

drip irrigation systems see also watering

blackberries, Nov 99:16 building, Jul 09:34

easy watering, Mar 99:6

even watering, Mar 00:8

low budget, Mar 13:23

milk jug, Sep 01:38

more for your watering $, May 06:12 smart gardening, Jan 12:43

vs. sprinklers, Jul 12:36

Dromgoole, John (Texas' Legendary

Promoter of Organics), Nov 04:34, May

16:28

Drosera annua (sundew) treasure from the Big Thicket, Mar 08:47

drought -proof plants, Mar 06:22, Mar 07:26

and rain, May 12:13

silver lining, Jul 11:4 -tested plants, Mar 15:5

and trees, Mar 17:30

urban impact, Nov 06:46 watering orchards, Mar 13:35

Drummond, Thomas (botanist), Sep 15:40

Dryopteris (wood fern) bissetiana (beaded wood fern), Mar 08:23

championii (champion wood fern), Mar

08:24 erythrosora (autumn fern), Mar 08:24

sieboldii (Seibold's wood fern), Mar 08:24

tokyoensis (Tokyo wood fern), Mar 08:23

Duranta erecta, May 07:27, Nov 12:28, Jul 14:48

'Gold Eagle,' Jan 06:30 repens, Jan 01:32

Texas Superstar, Jul 15:24

dusty miller. see Centaurea cineraria Dutchman's pipe. see Epiphyllum oxypetalum;

Selenicereus grandiflora

Dyschoriste linearis (snake herb) What Was It? Nov 98:44

E Earth Kind designation, Sep 05:38, Sep 08:43,

May 15:38

earthworms beneficial, May 13:23 in compost, Jul 99:46, Nov 06:42

cotton seed meal and, Sep 99:6

raising, Mar 03:45 East Dallas Community Garden, Sep 05:29

Eastside Cafe (Austin), Sep 07:14

ebony spleenwort. see Asplenium ebony, Texas. see Chloroleucon ebano

Echeveria growing outdoors, Sep 12:50


Echinacea for butterflies, Sep 17:32


nativars, Jan 17:39 paradoxa (Ozark coneflower), Jul 09:28

purpurea (purple coneflower)

nectar plant, Mar 07:14 plant profile, Mar 05:34, Jul 09:26


for summer color, Jul 01:20, May 04:27 reversion, Sep 16:39

sanguinea, Jul 09:28

Echinocereus pectinatus var. reichenbachii winter-hardy cactus, Nov 09:42

edamame, Nov 16:50, Mar 17:14

edging landscape, Nov 99:42

pond, Jan 99:13, Jul 99:10

education see also school gardens

Hostyn Hill Greenhouses workshops, Nov

14:38 Junction Middle School, Sep 12:39

Micro Farm at University of Texas, Mar

15:24 San Antonio Children's Garden, Nov 12:30

teacher's teacher, Mar 12:45 Victoria Educational Gardens, Nov 07:18

eggplant All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37 'Applegreen,' May 99:6

'Black Beauty,' May 99:6

harvesting, May 07:7 'Louisiana Long Green,' May 99:6


recipes, Mar 04:27, Mar 15:18 'Rosa Bianca,' May 99:6

storing, May 14:17

'White Egg,' May 99:6

Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) invasive species, Mar 07:44

el Día de los Muertos herbs, Nov 10:36 elderberry, Mar 12:13, May 12:5

elecampane. see Inula helenium

elephant ears. see Colocasia esculenta Elkhart Elementary School, Nov 16:40

Ellis, Linda

anti-dog fence, Mar 10:13 the ivy, Jul 09:13

Texas Superstar, Nov 06:38

elm cedar, Nov 01:47, Sep 02:11, Sep 15:4, 28

lacebark, Jan 06:45, Sep 15:4, 28

slippery, May 07:30

Elymus (wild rye) cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:47

Emanis, George Marquette (1917-2010), Nov 10:45

Embothrium (firebush) for hummingbirds, butterflies, Jul 00:12

Engelmannia pinnatifida (cutleaf daisy) for Blackland Prairies gardens, Jul 99:29

English gardens, Nov 09:26, Mar 17:13

entryways landscaping, Sep 00:8

epazote. see Chenopodium

Epiphyllum oxypetalum, Mar 04:39, Jul 09:47, Jul 13:25

strictum, Sep 13:5


Equisetum (horsetail)

for natural skin care, Jan 03:29

Eragrostis elliottii (blue love grass) 'Wind Dancer,' Jan 06:31, Sep 06:30

ergonomics, gardening, Mar 02:50, Nov 05:32, Nov 17:16

Eriophyllum (yarrow) plant profile, Mar 05:34 for summer color, May 04:27

erosion control, plants for, Mar 00:47

Eryngium (sea holly) alpinum, Nov 09:38

heterophyllum, Nov 09:38

leavenworthii, Nov 09:37 maritimum, Nov 09:39


planum, Nov 09:38 yuccifolium, Nov 09:37

x zabelii, Nov 09:39

Erysimum citrona seed source, Jan 07:50

Erythrina (coral bean) x bidwilli, Jan 05:18 cristagalli, Mar 09:24

herbaceae, Nov 00:10, May 06:50

vespertilio, Sep 06:50

Eschscholzia californica (California poppy) fall planting, Sep 12:43 plant profile, Sep 07:26

Escobaria vivipara winter-hardy cactus, Nov 09:43

esperanza. see Tecoma

Etchieson, Barbara

constructed wetlands, Sep 00:39 deck gardens, Nov 00:18

ethylene, Jul 11:39

Euonymus americanus (strawberry bush), Sep 06:44

cuttings, Nov 08:25

Eupatorium (mist flower) coelestinum, Jul 00:39, Sep 04:43

greggii

fall flowering, Jul 05:29 perennial for summer color, May 04:28

for Rio Grande Plains gardens, Nov 99:24

Trans Pecos native, May 01:41 serotinum (late-flowering boneset), Sep

02:36

Euphorbia (poinsettia) aeruginosa, Sep 08:38

antisyphilitica, Sep 08:36, 38

balsamifera, Sep 08:36 bicolor, Sep 08:37

characias ssp. wulfenii, Sep 08:37

clava, Sep 08:36 clivicola, Sep 08:36

cyathophora, Sep 08:36

cylindrifolia, Sep 08:36 decaryi, Sep 08:36

gymnocalycioides, Sep 08:35

Hostyn Hill Greenhouses, Nov 14:34 as houseplant, Nov 03:34

ingens, Sep 08:36

keeping healthy, Nov 04:12 leucodendron, Sep 08:38

marginata, Sep 08:37

meloformis, Sep 08:38 milii, Sep 08:37

obesa, Sep 08:35, 38



platyclada, Sep 08:36 pseudocactus, Sep 08:36

pulcherrima

dark period for, Sep 99:9 inducing blooms, Sep 04:8

as landscape shrub, May 03:8

plant profile, Sep 08:36 watering, Nov 99:9, Nov 98:7

reversion, Sep 16:37

rigida, Sep 08:37 tirucalli, Sep 08:38

tortilis, Sep 08:36

Eustoma grandiflorum (Texas bluebells) 'Forever Blue,' Jan 01:8

Lone Star royalty, Jan 04:21

plant profile, Jul 02:36 seed source, May 18:5

Evans, Tiffany (market gardener), Nov 12:42

evening primrose. see Oenothera

evergreens, Jan 00:32, Sep 08:30, Nov 14:21

exercise, gardening as, Nov 06:46

exposure. see light Eysenhardtia texana (kidneywood), Jan 13:50

EzGro Garden systems, Sep 15:20

F Fagopyrum (buckwheat), Jan 15:36, May 16:17

fairy duster. see Calliandra californica

fall gardening cleanup, Nov 99:8

cool-crop know-how, Sep 10:35

five reasons to love, Jul 10:38 going green with leftovers, Jul 11:24

planting, Sep 06:14

projects for cool dry weather, Sep 10:4 ten commandments, Jul 00:20

Texas style, Jul 02:26

tips for success, Jul 04:18, Jul 06:14, Jul

10:38

fall (season) color, Jul 16:26 trees for color, Jul 03:42

fallowing, Mar 18:6

Fallugia paradoxa (Apache plume) for Trans Pecos gardens, May 99:15

false dragonhead. see Physostegia

false garlic, Jan 18:36 fan flower. see Scaevola

Farmer In The City's Daylily Seeds

(Houston), Sep 02:21 Farmer, Kari

Ambushed by Mr. PWM, Nov 04:13 Farmers Branch Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival,

Jul 15:32

Farmers Branch Rose Show, Jul 15:32

farmer's markets Bayou City Farmers' Market, Jan 07:22

La Grange Farmers Market, May 14:40

farms see also sustainable agriculture

Billabong Fresh Flower Farm, Nov 11:18 Boggy Creek Farm, Jul 08:26, Sep 08:5, Nov

11:23

Chappell Hill Lavender Farm, Jan 07:26 Clark's Farm, Nov 06:28

community-supported agriculture, Mar 16:20

Dixondale Farms, Sep 02:24, Sep 14:20 Hilltop Gardens, Mar 15:40

with horse power, Jan 11:20

Lily Farm, May 05:26

local, Jul 07:18

Magnolia Hill Farm, May 16:20 Micro Farm at University of Texas, Mar

15:24

new face of urban, Nov 13:36 olive, Nov 14:39

summers on the farm, Nov 07:13

Sweet Berry Farm, Sep 02:12 FarmShare Austin, Nov 13:39

feather grass. see Nasella tenuissima

feather meal, Jul 03:39

feijoa plant profile, Mar 09:27

Felicia ameloides (blue marguerite) South African native, Jul 04:42

fencerows cedar for, Jan 02:47

fences for deer control, Jan 07:18

rolled barbed wire, Mar 10:13

fennel. see Foeniculum vulgare

Ferguson, Kristi

lizard love, Nov 16:13 Ferguson, Mary C.

fall gardening, Sep 06:13

poke, pinch, pat, Sep 08:13

ferns as contaminant filter, Nov 15:32 interplanting, Mar 04:9

invasive species, Mar 07:44

language of flowers, Jan 02:31 plant profile, Mar 08:22

statewide diverse, adaptive, May 00:40

fertilizers and fertilizing see also compost and composting; manure;

names of specific plants

annuals, Sep 03:8 biosolids, Mar 15:13

containerized berries, Jan 99:34, Mar 99:5

cool season grasses, Mar 99:9 deep-root for trees, Mar 99:7, Nov 99:11

matching to soil, Sep 00:13

mistakes to avoid, Nov 12:15 natural, Jul 03:36, Nov 12:50

organic, Jan 99:23, Jan 01:16, Nov 01:18, Jul

14:5 the poop on poo, Sep 17:22

primer, Jan 99:22

sidedress, May 06:6 testing before, Jan 99:45

'turf-type,' May 14:50

vegetables, May 00:7 for water conservation, Jul 12:35

wood ashes, Jan 06:12

fescue blue, May 00:10

tall, May 05:19

Festival Beach Community Garden (Austin), Nov 15:26

Festival Hill, Jul 02:12

feverfew. see Chrysanthemum

Ficus (fig) 'Alma,' Jan 01:39

'Brown Turkey,' Jan 01:39 'Celeste,' Jan 01:39

cloning, Mar 08:40

container grown, Nov 09:21 dwarf varieties, Nov 00:16, Mar 12:22

encouraging dormancy, Sep 99:11

fruit drop, Nov 05:46



harvesting, Jul 99:8 history, Sep 05:12

'LSU Purple,' Jan 01:39

'Magnolia,' Jan 01:39 moving established tree, Jan 08:50

mulching, Mar 99:8, Mar 01:10, Sep 01:10,

Nov 01:9 pests, Jul 07:5

plant profile, Jan 01:38, May 07:32, Mar

08:36 propagation, May 08:5

pruning, Jan 11:34

pumila, Sep 99:12, Nov 99:11, Jan 01:9 'Texas Everbearing,' Mar 00:461, Jan 01:39

watering, May 00:10

for wildlife, Jan 16:13 field pea, May 03:42, May 06:29, May 11:14

fig. see Ficus

filberts roasting, Jul 04:48

filters, pond maintenance, May 00:12, Jul 00:12, Sep

00:13

Pond Care Pond Zyme Plus for cleaning, Nov

00:13 fire-and-ice plant. see Solanum

fire ants ants for, Sep 99:20

and armadillos, Mar 07:5

bait products, May 01:12, Sep 03:50 in compost, May 09:50, Mar 10:50

controlling, Jul 04:11

fall relocation, Nov 06:46 on okra, Nov 07:50

pest profile, Jan 06:35

phorid flies for, Mar 01:49 protozoa for, May 04:50, Jan 05:42

red imported, May 00:19

spinosad for, May 08:50, Nov 09:50 stinging truth, Jan 06:13, Mar 06:5

urine for, Nov 98:5

fire blight on fruit trees, Nov 99:11

on landscape plants, Mar 03:11

on pears, Jan 99:10 firebush. see Embothrium; Hamelia

firebush, Guatemalan. see Odontonema

strictum firecracker fern, Mexican. see Russelia

equisetiformis

firecracker plant. see Cuphea; Justicia firecracker vine. see Ipomoea

fireflies, May 02:50, May 13:21

firespike. see Odontonema strictum firethorn. see Pyracantha coccinea

fireworks, Brazilian. see Porphyrocoma

fish feeding, Jan 99:13, May 99:10, Nov 00:13,

May 01:12

gambusia minnows, Jan 01:6 koi, Jul 99:11, Sep 99:12

for mosquito control, Nov 00:6

oxygen for, Jul 00:12 pond size and, Mar 00:12, May 00:12

protecting from predators, Nov 99:12

tilapia, Mar 00:30 winter care, Nov 99:12, Sep 00:13

fish emulsion, Jul 03:40

fish meal, Jul 03:39

Fisk, Susan V.

soil loss, Sep 14:35 Fite, Candy

preserving tomatoes, Nov 10:12

roses of yesterday, today and tomorrow, Mar 00:20

flame vine. see Senecio

flax lily. see Dianella tasmancia flax, New Zealand. see Phormium tenax

flies see also names of specific flies as beneficial insects, Mar 01:21, Mar 03:18,

May 03:26

flossflower. see Ageratum flowering stones, Jan 11:23

flowers see also cut flowers; wildflowers for Blackland Prairies gardens, Nov 00:31

cool-season, Jan 03:7

edible garnish, Jul 99:42

fall blooming, Sep 04:43, Jul 06:31

fall planting, Sep 03:7, Jul 04:20, Sep 04:8,

Nov 98:7 fertilizing, May 02:7, Jan 03:7

green, Mar 11:30

heat-loving, May 02:7, 26, May 06:8, 45, Jul 07:22

interplanting with vegetables, May 01:7 Eli Kubieck, Mar 17:26

language of, Jan 02:31

low-maintenance, Mar 99:6 memory-inducing, Jan 17:13

pinching back, May 02:7

preserving, Jul 05:20 for small ponds, Sep 04:18

foam flower. see Tiarella

Foeniculum vulgare (fennel) cool-season culinary herb, Sep 09:31


for natural skin care, Jan 03:28 plant profile, Sep 06:32

for tea, Jan 01:43

foliage ornamental, Mar 03:42


for use with cut flowers, Nov 17:50 winter color, Nov 03:17

Food Bank of Corpus Christi, Mar 09:18

foraging wild plants, Nov 98:13

forest, hardwood, Sep 15:45

forget-me-not, summer. see Anchusa capensis

Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth Botanic Gardens, Nov 02:22

Metro Maples, Sep 07:28 Resource Connection community garden,

Nov 11:40

fountain grass. see Pennisetum fountains for aeration, Mar 00:12

Fouquieria splendens (ocotillo) for Trans Pecos gardens, May 99:16

four o'clock. see Mirabilis

foxglove. see Digitalis

foxglove, wild. see Penstemon

fragrance basics of, May 02:16

herbs for scent, Jan 06:32 plants for, Mar 09:46, May 13:40

therapeutic value, Jul 99:34

frangipani. see Plumeria rubra

Frangula caroliniana (Carolina buckthorn)

berries, Nov 12:28 Franzel, Lee

Texas-style pickles, Jan 16:42

Frasier, Bruce (Dixondale Farms), Sep 14:20 Frederick, Bonnie

Billy Bob Shakespeare? Jul 06:13

war-torn memories, Nov 03:12 words in the garden, Mar 14:13

Freesia South African native, Jul 04:41

fringe flower. see Loropetalum chinense

fringetree blooming tree, Sep 04:41 fragrant, May 13:41

small tree, Sep 16:30

Frisby, Frances tiny white lies, Sep 99:13

frogs, Nov 16:5

frost protection cloth versus plastic, Nov 00:7

getting a head start, Mar 03:6

milk jug, Nov 17:4 techniques, Nov 03:6, Jul 06:20, Sep 06:39

frostweed. see Verbesina virginica

fruit trees see also citrus; names of specific fruits

adapted varieties, Nov 98:9 Richard Ashton, Mar 13:32

backyard orchards, Jan 06:22

bare root stock, Jan 00:10, Mar 02:9, Jan 06:10

chilling requirements, May 01:10, Jan 02:36,

Mar 02:10 container grown, Sep 00:10, Nov 09:20

dormant oil for, Jan 02:9

dwarf varieties, Nov 00:15, Mar 12:22 exotic, Jul 01:22

fall cleanup, Nov 05:10

fertilizing, Jan 02:9, Mar 02:10, Mar 03:12, Nov 14:5

fire blight on, Nov 99:11

frost protection, Mar 06:10 fruit drop, Jan 03:46

growing for profit, Sep 02:16

growing in Houston, Jan 07:23 hardy exotics, Mar 09:26

herbicides, Nov 14:5

overwatering, May 01:10 patience till harvest, Mar 00:9

pick your own success, Sep 10:40

planting, Jan 02:9 propagation, Jan 10:32

pruning, Jan 00:14, Jan 11:32

ripening tips, Jul 11:38 sale at Urban Harvest, Nov 09:44

sources of, Nov 01:10

suckers, May 02:9, Sep 05:46 Texas A&M Vegetable and Fruit

Improvement Center, Sep 10:30

Texas Rare Fruit Growers, Nov 16:20 thinning fruit, Mar 03:12

Urban Harvest's fruit forests, Nov 07:31

watering during drought, Mar 13:35 what to do with old, Jan 04:28, Mar 04:5

Winedale Historical Center at Austin, May

16:32

fungal diseases see also names of specific fungal diseases

caution, Jan 16:50


conditions for, Sep 04:50

controlling, May 01:7 E-rase fungicide, Jul 02:50

on fruit trees, Jan 02:46

Mycena, Mar 02:46 on roses, Nov 00:47

on tomato, Jul 00:46, Mar 02:30

vegetable garden, Mar 17:44

fungus gnats vinegar for control, Sep 99:7

The Funny Farm, Sep 11:13

fusarium wilt on spinach, May 01:46

on tomatoes, Mar 02:30

G Gabriel Valley Farms (Jonah Township), Jan

09:14

Gaillardia (blanket flower) unusual daisy, Nov 05:27

galangal. see Alpinia

Galanthus (snowdrop) winter color, Nov 03:17

Galium odoratum (sweet woodruff) plant profile, Mar 03:39

galls, May 01:9

Galphimia (thryallis) glauca, Jul 15:24

plant profile, May 08:48, May 12:24

propagation, Sep 08:50

Galveston, Texas surviving Ike, May 09:24

gamagrass. see Tripsacum dactyloides Garcia, Beverly (labyrinth facilitator), Jan

07:38

Garcia, Elizabeth A. roses in the desert, May 11:13

garden design. see design

garden tours, Mar 08:13

Austin, Mar 17:4

gardeners Gwen Barclay, Jul 02:12 Richard Ashton, Mar 13:32

Austin Organic Gardeners, Nov 04:34

Sharon Begnaud, Jul 16:42 Jerry D. Bewley, Nov 99:19

Steve Bickerstaff, Nov 10:40

Josie Bomar, May 05:26 Christian Nestell Bovee, Mar 02:11

Jadzia Brock, Sep 01:12

Susan Brooks, Mar 09:31 Debra Brooks, May 14:21

Carolyn Bush, Jan 05:24 Marie Caillet, Mar 01:34

Elizabeth Carls, Sep 09:35

Mark Carpenter, Mar 14:36 Jack Carpenter, May 05:26

Charlotte Carter, Nov 10:40

Harley Clark, Nov 06:28 Chip Clint, Jul 00:26

Harold DeYoung, Nov 03:30

R.B. and Era Escue, Jan 02:11 The Garden Fairy, May 17:13

"Gardeners Dream Club," Jul 02:11

Miney and Bob Gardner, Nov 05:33 Greg Grant, Jul 13:14

Bill Graves, Nov 98:32

Herman Green, Sep 15:37 Gene Gumfory, May 18:40

Mary Beth Hagood, Sep 17:45

Earl Hall, Nov 13:42

Lawrence G. Harvey, Jan 00:43

George and Susan Hedrick, Sep 15:39 Madalene Hill, Jul 02:12, Jan 11:36

Paige Hill, Mar 12:32

Lucinda Hutson, May 09:20 John Jenkins, Sep 15:38

Walter and Margaret Jett, Sep 00:14

Bill and Mary Louise Jobe, Jul 16:45 Robb Kendrick, Sep 04:26


Robert Ladewig, Sep 15:32 Master Gardeners, Jan 04:22, Mar 04:5

Debbie and Jim McDowell, Jan 07:26

Maggie Ross McNeely, Nov 09:26 Ruth Grant Mena, Jan 09:45

as mentors, Nov 05:43

new to Texas, Nov 14:13 Ed Pechacek, May 17:30

Julio Perez, Nov 15:26

Plant a Row for the Poor, Mar 14:4

Mason Popp, Sep 11:30

Susan Portman, Jul 17:38

Jeannie Ralston, Sep 04:26 re-gardeners, Mar 14:5

real Texas gardeners, Sep 12:4

John Salzman, Mar 09:31 Bill Schneider, Nov 02:26

Trisha Shirey, May 15:20 Nita Shiro, Jul 16:34

Kari and Jim Shockley, Nov 14:30

Tom Spencer, Sep 09:18 H.J. Lutcher Stark, Sep 10:20

Ronnie and Rodney Stephens, Jan 00:38

Adolphus Sterne, Sep 10:46 George and Mary Stewart, May 03:12, May

09:16

Toni and Darlene Taylor, Sep 15:39 Texans, Nov 16:4

Deb Toman, Mar 14:18

Salome and Seth Welliver, Mar 17:18 Sylvia McCasland Williams, Nov 08:36

winter sports, Nov 13:4

you know you are when, Jul 04:12

Gardenia augusta (cape jasmine), Jul 05:46

'First Love,' Jul 09:50 jasminoides, Mar 09:46, Jan 10:46, May

13:40

language of flowers, Jan 02:31 memories of Mother's, Jul 07:13


gardens see also specific types of gardens

as art, Jan 01:22

back porch, Sep 07:13 backyard overhaul, Mar 15:28, May 15:40

bag, Mar 13:4, May 13:5

batting .500 but persevering, Nov 00:14 beds in clay soil, Jul 10:50

blogs, Jul 08:24

Bouldin Creek section of Austin, Mar 09:30 buried treasure in, Jul 08:13

butterfly, May 99:34, Jan 14:36

correctional facilities, Jan 12:36, Jul 14:20 cutting, Jan 10:45

deck, Nov 00:18

downsize, Jan 12:43 fallow, Mar 18:6

first, Nov 12:4, Sep 14:13

genesis gardens, Jul 15:40

Gourmet Garlic Gardens, Sep 01:14

grandmother's green legacy, Mar 16:13 Grannies,' Jul 07:43

habitat, Jul 08:45

health benefits of gardening, May 08:4, Nov 17:14

Hermann Park, Nov 17:20

Hill Country Lavender, Sep 04:26 Hodges Iris Garden, Jul 04:26

homestead, Jul 01:26

lasagna, Mar 10:38 lawn alternative, Jul 09:5

lemon-scented, Nov 09:14

The Lily Farm, May 05:26, Mar 14:36 'lost cause' in spring, Jul 00:22


low maintenance, Jul 00:39, Nov 05:33 lunar, Jan 09:34, Mar 09:5

market, Nov 12:42

mature, Nov 05:32

McGovern Centennial Gardens, Nov 17:21

memories, Jan 08:13, Sep 14:4

moonlight, Mar 04:38, Jul 13:22 Mother Nature vs. Mankind, Nov 99:13

mottos, Mar 14:13

nighttime activity, Nov 13:13 planning, Jan 99:30, Jan 00:24, Jan 11:4, 42

planting some "roots," Jan 07:13 potpourri, Nov 09:15

prep for spring, Nov 14:14

prison, Sep 17:13 restaurant, Sep 07:14, Sep 11:30

Riverside Nature Center, Jul 10:42

salad, Nov 04:30, Sep 11:41 sandbox conversion, Jan 15:50

scented, Nov 09:14

from scratch, Sep 08:40 shade tree, Jul 03:26

small retreats, Nov 99:26

for small space, Mar 13:42 Southern Methodist University, Jul 06:28

spa, Nov 09:16

square-foot, May 18:42 starting new plot, Jul 10:13

straw bale, Jul 15:5, Nov 16:14

sweetheart log cabin garden, Jan 02:28 Texas Quilt Museum (and garden), Sep 13:42

as therapy, Nov 02:12

for the Third World, Jul 07:18 trial-and-error, Jan 13:13

truck patch, May 08:13

tub, Jan 13:40 Victoria Educational Gardens, Nov 07:18

yin/yang garden, Jan 02:29

Gardens of the American Rose Center (LA), Sep 16:34

Gardner, Miney and Bob, Nov 05:33

garlic see also Allium

cool-season culinary herb, Sep 09:34

'Early Italian Purple,' Nov 01:6 elephant, May 07:50, Sep 15:32

false, Jan 18:38

for health, Nov 00:42 heirloom, Sep 15:32

make your own garlic powder, Jan 07:5

plant profile, Sep 00:30, Sep 01:14, Sep 07:38, Sep 10:14, Jul 16:20

planting time, Mar 18:50

'Silver Rose,' Nov 01:6


storing, May 14:18

wild, Jan 18:36 gates, May 10:50

Gaultheria procumbens (wintergreen) herb for tea, Jan 01:43

Gaura aphids on, Jul 08:50

lindheimeri, Nov 06:26, 50, Jul 09:46, Mar 14:48

for wildflower meadow, Jul 99:18

geese, May 07:41 Geiser, Diane

tobacco hornworms, Nov 12:13

Gelsemium sempervirens horn-flowered, May 13:28

identifying, Jul 02:47

plant profile, Mar 13:48 scented plant, Mar 09:46

vine for Texas, Jan 17:30

genetics blue flowers, Sep 09:26

evolution of flowering plants, Jan 08:48

geranium. see Pelargonium

Geranium 'Ringo 2000 Coral' (new for 2002), Jan 02:50

for scent, Jan 06:33 winter color, Nov 03:16

German influence in Texas, Sep 10:45 germination, timing of, Jan 99:7

ghost plant. see Graptopetalum paraguayense

Gibbons, Euell, Mar 16:45

gifts from the garden, Nov 06:34, Nov 08:26

for gardeners, Nov 00:8, Nov 01:6, Nov 03:11

ginger. see Zingiber officinale

ginger, butterfly. see Hedychium ginger, variegated. see Alpinia

ginger, wild. see Asarum splendens

ginseng. see Panax quinquefolius The Giving Field (Beaumont), Jul 16:42

Gladiolus February planting, Jan 02:7, Jan 03:7, Jan

04:7, Jan 05:7

July planting, Jul 99:7

byzantinus, Nov 01:44, Sep 05:43, Jan 10:46 cemetery plantings, May 08:45

communis, Nov 12:38

heirloom, Nov 12:38

Glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice) for southern physic garden, Jul 02:16

gnats, fungus, Sep 99:7 golden dewdrop. see Duranta

goldeneye. see Viguiera stenoloba

goldenrod. see Solidago Goldilocks. see Aster

Gomphrena globosa (globe amaranth)

annual for summer, May 11:27 cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:46


goosefoot. see Chenopodium gotu kola. see Centella asiatica

gourd. see Cucurbita

gourd, balsam. see Ibervillea lindheimeri gourd, hard shell. see Lagenaria siceraria

Gourmet Garlic Gardens (Bangs), Sep 01:14

grafting citrus fruits, Sep 03:20

fruit trees, Jan 10:33

t-bud, Mar 04:34

tomato, Nov 13:30

Graham, Jack greenhouses on a budget, Jul 07:38

Grahs, Jim (Austin Organic Gardeners), Nov

04:38

grama grass blue, Mar 00:9, Nov 98:21

sideoats, Nov 00:25, Nov 98:21 Grant, Greg

African influence, Mar 11:44

annuals nocturnal, Jul 09:47

petunias from the past, Mar 17:45

sweet peas, Nov 03:43 ban artificial intelligence, Nov 04:43

berries, Sep 06:43

birds, May 17:45 Blue Ribbon winters, Jul 02:44

bulbs

Crinum, Jul 04:43

heirloom, Nov 01:44

jonquils are coming, Jan 05:43

Narcissus, Jan 16:45 spring, Sep 05:43

butterflies, May 10:45, May 16:45

catalpa worms, Jul 13:45 cemetery plants, May 08:45

confessions of a plant rustler, Sep 02:44 dogs, Mar 13:45, Mar 14:45

fall color, Jul 03:42

fall is for planting, Sep 01:44 fantastic foliage, Mar 03:42

gardeners

The Adams family, Jan 14:45 Caroline Dormon, Nov 14:45

Henry Duelberg lives, Mar 06:43

Georgia Marquette Emanis (1917-2010), Nov 10:45

Euell Gibbins, Mar 16:45

Mary Beth Hagood, Sep 17:45 Bill and Mary Louise Jobe, Jul 16:45

Ruth Grant Mena, Jan 09:45

gardening angel, Nov 07:44 gardens

art and ornamentation, Sep 11:44

bog water, Nov 08:45 changing the world one garden at a time,

Jul 08:45

cottage, Jan 02:44, Nov 15:45 cutting, Jan 10:45

designing by the numbers, Mar 05:42

fowl weather, May 02:44 Grannies's, Jul 07:43

like music, Jul 14:45

quilt a garden, Nov 13:45 George Washington Carver, Nov 02:42

German influence on Texas landscape, Sep

10:45 Gold Star Esperanza, Mar 00:40

groundcovers

pruning crepe myrtle, May 01:14 hand-me-down plants, Mar 10:44

heat-loving plants, May 05:44

hot plants for Texas summer, May 06:45 invasive plants, Mar 07:43

King's Nursery, Jul 06:43

landscaping for birds, Jan 06:43 like vanilla for chocolate, Jul 10:46

magic of nature, Nov 17:45

magical plants for little children, Jan 08:44

make color work for you, Mar 04:43

memories of the farm, Sep 12:45 mentored to be a horticulturist, Nov 05:43

Miss Mozelle, a teacher's teacher, Mar 12:45

Mr Green Jeans, Sep 13:45 my long, sweet journey home, May 14:44

native plants, Jan 04:44, Jan 07:43, Nov

11:45, Jul 15:45 our garden heritage, Sep 09:46

overalls, Sep 16:45

"peachy keen," May 18:45 perennials

bluebonnet, Jul 12:45, Jan 17:45

crapemyrtle, May 15:45 late bloomers, Sep 04:43

lilies, Jan 12:45

nocturnal, Jul 09:46 roses, Sep 03:41, Sep 08:45, Nov 12:45,

Jan 15:45

treasures from the Big Thicket, Mar 08:46

Turk's cap, May 12:45

verbena, May 04:40

plant introductions, May 07:44 plants that make scents, Mar 09:46

prairie, May 11:45, Jul 15:45

raising cane, Sep 07:44 rescue me, Mar 18:45

seed saving, Nov 09:45 shared plants, Mar 15:45

shrubs

crapemyrtle, Jul 17:45 late bloomers, Sep 04:43

snakes, Jan 18:45

swamps, Nov 16:44 Texas Superstars, Mar 02:44

trees

baldcypress, Jul 11:45 catalpa, Jul 13:45

chinaberry, Sep 14:45

maple leaves forever, Jul 05:43 my hardwood forest, Sep 15:45

pine, Nov 06:43

treasures from the Big Thicket, Mar 08:46 vegetables

corn, May 13:45, Sep 14:45

Irish potato, Jan 11:46 southern peas, May 03:42

sweet potatoes, May 09:46

view from a window, Jan 13:45 white trash gardening, Jan 03:44

Grant, Greg (plantsman), Jul 13:14, Sep 13:5

grape backyard orchard, Jan 06:24

'Black Spanish,' Jan 01:10

container grown, Nov 09:22 cuttings, May 17:5

harvesting, Jul 00:9

home production, Jul 06:38 industry boost, Sep 06:46

'Lenoir,' Jan 01:10

Munson, Nov 04:14 mustang, Jan 01:47

Pierce's disease, Jul 07:46

plant profile, Sep 01:20, May 08:24, Mar 17:36

planting, Jan 99:11, Jan 00:11, Jan 01:10

recommended varieties, May 00:46, Sep 03:46

'Seibel 9110,' Jan 01:10

soil preferences, Nov 00:12


stress, Jan 05:47

Texas Wine Grape Institute, May 10:50 transplanting, Jan 01:47, Sep 01:46

'Victoria Red,' Nov 17:24

grape hyacinth. see Muscari

grape, muscadine establishing, Nov 98:10

harvesting, Sep 00:10, Sep 01:10 plant profile, Mar 05:28, Mar 17:39

sources of, Sep 14:50

varieties, Jan 99:44, Jan 00:12 grapefruit, May 09:35, 36, 37

Graptopetalum paraguayense (ghost plant) for containers, Jul 13:42 hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:42

Graptosedum, Jul 13:42

grassbur, Sep 99:46

grasses see also lawns; names of specific grasses

for Blackland Prairies gardens, Nov 00:32


cool season, Jan 99:12, Mar 99:9, Nov 99:11

"The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses," Nov 98:22

fall flowering, Jul 05:29

fertilizing, Mar 99:9, May 99:9, Sep 99:11, Nov 99:11, Nov 00:13

low-water choices, Nov 12:21 native, Nov 00:22, Sep 01:8, Mar 11:26, May

12:20, Nov 98:18

for north central Texas, Sep 00:47 ornamental, Jan 00:46, Jul 01:6, Jan 08:42,

Jul 08:36

planting, Jan 99:12 prairie, Jan 00:9

transplanting, Jan 00:46, Nov 14:23

warm season, Sep 99:11 watering, May 99:10, Nov 00:13

grasshoppers biological control, Nov 99:46, May 00:24, 46 birds for control, Sep 02:5, Jan 03:46

fiber grow web, Nov 10:50

and Guinea fowl, Sep 09:5 insecticides, Nov 99:46, May 00:24

kaolin treatment for, Nov 02:5

long term, May 00:24 Nolo Bait, Jan 08:50, Mar 11:50

primer, May 00:19

row covers for control, Sep 02:47, May 06:7, Jul 09:50, Jul 13:50, Sep 13:4, Nov 14:50

window screening for control, Jan 15:5

gravel as mulch, Nov 99:41 Graves, Bill (gardener), Nov 98:32

green construction roofs, May 07:46 Shangri La Botanical Garden, Sep 10:20

Green, Herman (gardener), Sep 15:37

green manure buckwheat, Jan 15:36

for fallow years, Jan 01:7

head start for spring, Nov 07:37 leaves, Nov 03:6

rye, Sep 01:6, Nov 04:7

and soil building, Nov 01:19, May 09:23 soil winter care, Nov 06:24, Nov 15:4

soybean, Nov 16:50

types of, May 16:14 for winter, Nov 03:6

Green Pastures (Austin), Sep 07:18

green roofs, Jul 14:25

greenhouses

see also cold frames; hoop houses; nurseries 'bucket,' Mar 00:33

on a budget, Jul 07:38

Hostyn Hill Greenhouses, Nov 14:34 milk jug mini-, Sep 01:38

old glass window, Jan 14:13

P/2 Organic (business), Jan 05:20 primer, Sep 99:38

raising tilapia in, Mar 00:30

Sagra’s Buona Terra, Sep 11:30 for season extension, Sep 02:29

greens, Jul 15:15, Nov 15:14

greensand, Jul 03:40 Gregg, Janet

chinch bugs, May 06:49

fire ants, Jan 06:35 Texas superstars, Nov 06:38

Gregg, Josiah (botanist), Sep 15:40

groundcover for drainage ditches, Mar 03:45

establishing, Mar 06:12

lawn conversion, Sep 99:11, Sep 00:12, Nov 98:10

plant trials, Nov 04:27

Texas natives, Jan 00:34 trimming, Jan 02:10

winter cleanup, Jan 08:42 groundsel. see Senecio

grubs, May 07:50, Jul 09:50

grubworms, Jul 00:32, Nov 02:46, Jul 03:10

Guajacum angustifolium for Rio Grande Valley gardens, Sep 99:37

guava, pineapple plant profile, Mar 09:27

Guinea fowl, May 03:34, May 07:43, Sep 09:5,

Jan 10:13

gum, sweet

for health, May 07:30

Gumfory, Gene (gardener), May 18:40

Gymnocalycium as houseplant, Nov 03:33

Gypsophila (baby's breath) language of flowers, Jan 02:31

gypsum, Jul 03:41

H Habranthus

fall blooming bulb, Jul 99:33

tubispathus var. texensis, Jan 17:5

hackberry for Rio Grande Plains gardens, Nov 99:24

source of mistletoe, Nov 00:10 Hagood, Mary Beth (gardener), Sep 17:45

Halesia diptera (two-winged silverbell) for Piney Woods gardens, Mar 99:33

Hall, Earl (plant breeder), Nov 13:42

Hamamelis (witch hazel)

for health, May 07:30

Hamelia (firebush) heat-tolerant, Mar 02:7

patens, Mar 03:26, May 05:45, Jul 07:26 Hanath, Nathan (Magnolia Hill Farm), May

16:20

handicapped gardening, Sep 00:6, Nov 98:32

hanging baskets maintaining, Jul 99:7

plants for, Mar 02:8 sphagnum how-to, Jul 05:35

Hansen, Keith

salvias, May 18:20

Hanukkah herbs, Nov 10:39

hardiness zones, Mar 12:4 harlequin bug, Sep 16:50

harlequin flower. see Sparaxis tricolor

Harrison, Frankie Lee lizards, Sep 04:13

Hartmann, Tim

kiwifruit, Sep 17:40 passion vine, Nov 17:42

harvesting see also names of specific plants continually to increase yield, Jul 99:6

tips for success, May 14:14

Harvey, Lawrence G. (tomato grower), Jan 00:43

Haven, Kim (cut flower farmer), Nov 11:18

hawksbeard, Asian, May 16:50 hawthorn. see Crataegus

hawthorn, Indian. see Rhaphiolepis indica

hay bale gardening, Jul 15:5

Hayes, Doyle

A-maize-ing, Nov 06:13

Haynes, Lori, May 16:34 hazelnuts, roasting, Jul 04:48

healing gardens, Mar 17:22

health, mental gardening Rx for, Jan 18:13

Heard Natural Science Museum (McKinney), Jan 09:38

heat zones American Horticultural Society, Jul 99:7

heather, Mexican or false. see Cuphea

Hedera helix (English ivy) climbing vine, Jan 01:9 hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41

high temperatures and, Jan 99:44

trailer, Jan 14:42

hedges

pruning, Jul 02:8, Jan 03:9, Mar 06:10

Hedrick, George and Susan (gardeners), Sep 15:39

Hedychium (butterfly ginger) for fall, Nov 16:27 fragrant, Mar 09:46, May 13:42

for shade, Mar 04:9

Hedyotis crassifolia (bluet) native groundcover, Jan 00:35

heirloom gardens, Sep 09:46

heirloom plants bulbs, Nov 01:44

Narcissus, Sep 00:22

okra, Jan 17:4 Petunia, Jan 00:9

roses, Mar 00:20

tomato, Jul 00:47, Nov 03:26, Sep 06:5, Jan 17:14, May 17:50

Helenium (sneezeweed or bitterweed)

amarum, Sep 06:30 'Dakota Gold,' Sep 10:38

flexuosum, Mar 13:50

Helianthus (sunflower) 'Bellezza D'Autuno,' Mar 01:8


as contaminant filter, Nov 15:32 crazy for daisies, Nov 05:27

'Earthwalker,' Mar 01:8

garden volunteers, Jan 05:13 giant red, Nov 09:13

maximiliana, Jul 06:33

'Moulin Rouge,' Mar 01:8


pollinating, Nov 99:49

'Ring of Fire,' Nov 00:8 'Soraya,' Mar 00:8

wide variety of, May 99:6

Heliotropium for moonlight garden, Mar 04:39

Helleborus x hybridus (Lenten rose), Nov 07:25 niger (Christmas rose), Nov 03:17, Nov

07:25

Helotes Farm, Mar 16:20

Hemerocallis (daylily) container grown, Jul 99:7

dividing, Nov 05:46 double orange, May 10:5

fulva, Nov 01:45, Mar 06:26

The Lily Farm, May 05:26, Mar 14:36 low maintenance perennial, Sep 01:7

Magnolia Hill Farm, May 16:24

moving, Jan 09:42


transplanting, Sep 99:8

hempweed. see Mikania scandens hen and chicks. see Sempervivum

henbit. see Lamium amplexicaule

henna. see Lawsonia inermis herb gardens, Nov 00:40

herb recipes basil, Jan 10:25, May 12:39, May 13:30

blends, Nov 06:37

breads, May 09:42, May 10:24 chives, May 12:39

cilantro, Nov 99:39

compound butter, May 09:42 culinary, May 08:22

dill, Sep 06:35, Sep 09:32

dressings, Jul 99:42, May 09:42 enhancing the bounty, May 05:32

fennel, Sep 06:35, Sep 09:32

fruit punch, May 09:42 gift mixtures, Sep 03:32

holiday, Nov 10:38

jellies, Sep 11:37 lavender, Mar 04:21, Jan 07:28, Nov 09:18

lemon balm, Mar 07:31

with Mexican herbs, Jan 09:32 Mexican herbs, Jan 07:34

mint, Jan 05:41, May 12:40

oil, May 99:21 pasta, May 10:24

persillade, May 12:41

pesto, May 99:21, May 01:29, May 06:36 risotto, May 10:24

rosemary, May 12:42

sauces, May 10:24, May 12:39 skin care, Jan 03:29

thyme, Jul 04:40, Mar 10:24

vinegars, oils, wines, Sep 04:33, May 12:40

herbicides for Bermuda grass, May 06:40

contamination of manure, May 00:6 injury on tomato, Mar 02:31, Jul 10:50

lawn treatment, Jul 00:11

pre-emergent, Jul 01:12 Roundup, Nov 11:50, May 14:50

Skip's weed wiper, May 06:43

troubleshooting, May 17:42

herbs see also herb recipes

American Botanical Council Medicinal Herb

Garden, Nov 01:20

annual, Sep 05:20 Asian, Jan 08:22

bees and, Mar 11:20

bulb, Sep 05:20 classic Italian, May 10:20

in containers, May 08:23, Jul 10:20

cool-season, Sep 09:30 culinary, May 08:20, May 09:40, Sep 09:30

in disguise, Jul 03:22

drying, Nov 06:36 easy to grow, Mar 14:20

enhancing the bounty with, May 05:32

fall planting, Jul 04:20, Sep 04:7, Nov 05:6 flavored vinegars, oils, wines, Sep 04:31

fresh, Nov 07:30, May 12:38

as gifts, Nov 08:26 growing tips, Jan 05:50, Mar 08:26

harvesting, May 99:18, Sep 03:28

healing gardens, Mar 17:22


Madalene Hill, Jul 02:12, Jan 11:36

holiday, Nov 10:36 Lucinda Hutson's garden, May 09:20

indoor gardens as gifts, Nov 98:7

International Festival-Institute at Round Top, Jul 02:12

interplanting, Mar 04:7 invasive, May 00:8


lemony, Jul 11:35 lesser known, Mar 03:36

Mexican, Jan 07:32, Jan 09:28

natives, May 01:33 for natural skin care, Jan 03:26

perennial, Mar 03:7, Sep 03:7, Nov 04:6, Sep

05:22, Nov 05:6 for pets, May 04:22

pioneer garden, Nov 00:40

for potpourri, Jul 99:37 preserving, Sep 11:34

priceless bounty, May 10:13

propagation, Jan 04:42 raised beds for, Mar 00:22

for scent, Jan 06:32, Nov 09:14

for shade tree gardens, Jul 03:27 show-offs, Mar 05:32

spring planting, Mar 06:7

tea, Jan 01:42 watering, May 00:8

Xeriscape, May 00:36

Heritage Center, Texas Education and, Mar 05:38

Heritage Garden of Hunt County, Sep 08:40

heritage gardens Homestead Heritage Farm, Jul 01:26

Hunt County, Sep 08:40

Texas Education and Heritage Center, Mar 05:38

Herman, Julie

market gardening, Nov 12:42 native turf grass, May 12:20

Hermann Park (Houston), Nov 17:20

Hershey, John gardening for the rush, Jan 12:13

gardening with kids, Jan 04:12

Hesperaloe parviflora plant profile, May 11:48

winter-hardy succulent, Nov 09:43

Hess, Karla

in due time, Jul 16:13

Heuchera (coral bells) drought resistant, Mar 07:26


Heucherella plant profile, Sep 13:35

Hibiscus acetosella, Sep 06:30 for bog water garden, Nov 08:47

breakfast of champions, Jul 15:12

coccineus, Jan 04:44, Nov 07:50 cold-tolerant, Mar 99:7

frost damage, Mar 02:46

language of flowers, Jan 02:31 martianus (heartleaf hibiscus), Sep 99:37

moscheutos (hardy hibiscus), Jan 02:33, May

05:47, Jul 07:26, Jan 15:32 mutabilis (Confederate rose), Jan 02:41, Sep

04:43, Jul 10:27

perennial varieties, Mar 02:8

pruning, Jan 06:46

source for 'Kiss & Tell,' Jul 17:50

sources for, Jul 03:46 for summer color, May 04:27

syriacus (shrub mallow or rose of Sharon),

Jan 02:33, 41, May 03:34 transplanting, Nov 04:46

hibiscus, blue. see Alyogyne huegelii highways, landscaping, Nov 99:40

Hill Country Lavender (Blanco County), Sep

04:26 Hill, Madalene (and Gwen Barclay)

harvesting your herb garden, May 99:18

Hill, Madalene (herbalist), Jul 02:12, Jan 11:36 Hill, Paige (gardener), Mar 12:32

Hilltop Gardens (Lyford), Mar 15:40

Hines, Jean purple beans, Jan 09:24

Hippeastrum African varieties, Nov 99:9 x johnsonii, Nov 01:44, May 08:47, Mar

09:5, Nov 11:48, Mar 12:48, Jul 12:5

for luna moths, Mar 07:21 from mother to daughter, Jan 99:14

transplanting, Nov 04:46

Hodges Iris Garden (Covington), Jul 04:26

hoes and hoeing specialty, Jul 07:34, Sep 07:4

for weed control, Mar 11:43 Hoff, Heidi

my lawn, my passion, Jul 01:13

Hoffman, Robert Japanese persimmons, Sep 05:24

muscadine grapes, Mar 05:28

hoja santa. see Piper auritum Holder, Ilena

sharing veggies, May 16:13

holidays herbs, Nov 10:36

patriotic flowers, May 10:38

Holland, Kristin landscape a legacy, May 02:11

holly. see Ilex

hollyhock. see Alcea home owners associations, Nov 11:42, Mar

12:5

homeless, gardens for, Jul 15:40 homestead gardening, Jul 01:26

Homestead Heritage Farm, Jul 01:26

Hominick, Judy


bats, Nov 98:23

beans, May 08:19 butterflies, May 99:36, Sep 02:34, Mar 07:14

caterpillars, Jul 06:24

cool mist for the garden, Jul 99:22 dragonflies, May 08:30

ferns for Texas, Mar 08:22

gardens and gardeners Chip Clint, Jul 00:26

Dale Clark, Mar 02:12

Dallas community gardens, Sep 05:26 Heritage Garden of Hunt County, Sep

08:40

Marie Caillet, the Iris Lady, Mar 01:34 Metro Maples, Sep 07:28

musical garden, Jan 05:24

SMU gardens, Jul 06:28 South Texas Botanical Gardens and

Nature Center, Mar 09:22

Jimmy Turner, May 07:14

grow a purple martin home, Mar 99:26

hardy palms, Jan 08:32

Heard Natural Science Museum, Jan 09:38 hellebores, Nov 07:24

plant trials, Nov 04:26, Sep 06:26, May

09:30 skinks, May 08:44

Texas Trees Foundation, Sep 04:34 honeydew (plant sap), Jul 12:38

honeysuckle. see Lonicera

honeysuckle, Cape. see Tecoma honeysuckle, desert. see Justicia

honeysuckle, Mexican. see Justicia

hoop houses cat-proofing, May 04:49

construction, May 01:16, Mar 10:6

photo from reader, Nov 03:5 PVC tunnels, Sep 02:28

Hope Community Garden (Dallas), Sep 05:29

horehound. see Marrubium

hornworms tobacco, Mar 04:46, Nov 12:13

tomato, May 01:7, Jul 01:5, Mar 02:31, May 14:50

horse apple. see Maclura pomifera

horse nettles. see Solanum horsemint. see Mentha; Monarda

horseradish, Mar 12:50

horsetail. see Equisetum

horticultural oils controlling scale with, May 01:9

for pest control, May 01:24, May 10:43 horticultural therapy, Jul 99:13, 34

horticulturists William D. Adams, Nov 08:14 Morris "Chip" Clint, Jul 00:26

Lynn Lowrey, Sep 12:24

as mentors, Nov 05:43 Ying Doon Moy, Jan 15:20

Cynthia Mueller, Nov 17:38

Jerry Parsons, Jan 03:34 Edmond E. Risien, Jul 16:39

Jimmy Turner, May 07:14

Don Wilkerson, May 03:38 hose timers, Jul 02:9

hosiery recycling for garden use, Sep 01:37

Hosta cutting blooms off, Jul 10:49

dividing, Nov 05:46


reversion, Sep 16:38 Hostyn Hill Greenhouses (La Grange), Nov

14:34

house plants cactus, Nov 03:32

debugging, Sep 03:11

foolproof, Mar 12:26 holiday, Nov 02:8, Nov 07:28

moving indoors, Sep 04:12, Nov 04:12

raising outdoors, Mar 12:26

Houttuynia cordata (chameleon plant) for small ponds, Sep 04:18

hoverflies, May 13:23 Howie, Joan T.

Mexican accents, Jan 01:32

Hoya australis, Nov 03:34


Hoyt, Cathryn A.

native plants, May 15:26

Hudson, Terri (and Neal Poore)

organic tomatoes, Mar 00:33 hugelkultur, Mar 15:35

huisache. see acacia

huisache daisy. see Amblyolepsis setigera humate (ancient compost), Sep 99:14

hummingbird bush. see Anisicanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii

hummingbird moths, Jul 01:5

hummingbird plant. see Dicliptera suberecta hummingbird vine. see Ipomoea

hummingbirds feeding, Sep 03:50 migration and feeding, Mar 18:6

plants for, May 00:8, Jul 00:11, Sep 01:8, Jul

02:29, Jan 10:50 Rockport-Fulton annual celebration, Jan

01:32

wildlife capers, May 03:18 hummingbird's mint. see Agastache (hyssop)

Hunt School Youth Discovery Gardens, Mar

10:36

Huntley, Charles and Josephine (Austin

Organic Gardeners), Nov 04:36

Huntley, Joan (Austin Organic Gardeners), Nov 04:36

hurricanes garden restoration, May 07:20 gift of elderberries, Mar 12:13

surviving Ike, May 09:24

Texas strong, May 18:13 Hutson, Lucinda (gardener), May 09:20

hyacinth. see Hyacinthus orientalis

hyacinth bean. see Dolichos lablab hyacinth, grape. see Muscari

hyacinth, starch. see Muscari

hyacinth, water. see Eichhornia crassipes

Hyacinthus orientalis (blue Roman hyacinth) spring bulb, Sep 05:43

Hydrangea for acid soils, May 01:10


macrophylla, May 99:44, Nov 01:8 for Texas, Jan 99:44, Jul 03:8

hydroponics backyard, Nov 02:19 meets organic farming, Jul 99:14

tomatoes, Nov 02:14

Village Farms, Nov 02:14

Hylotelephium spectabile, Sep 15:48

Hymenocallis (spider lily) caribaea, Mar 05:27, May 08:47

and deer, Nov 05:46 identification, Nov 04:46, Jan 05:5, Mar 05:5

liriosme, Nov 08:46

nocturnal flower, Jul 09:47 spider lilies and, Jan 06:5

Texas native, Jan 04:45

Hymenoxys (four nerve daisy) acaulis, May 01:41



Hypericum (St. John's wort) for slopes, May 00:10

sources of, Nov 17:5 hyssop. see Agastache

hyssop, tea. see Micromeria fruticosa

I Ibervillea lindheimeri (balsam gourd)

Lindheimer plant, Nov 06:27

ice plant. see Aptenia cordifolia ice plant, hardy. see Delosperma cooperi

Icet, Joe (community gardener), Nov 14:42

iguanas, Jul 15:12

Ilex (holly) cornuta, Nov 12:26

decidua, Nov 06:45, Nov 12:26, Sep 14:42, May 17:5

dwarf varieties, Jan 99:9

for fall color, Jul 03:43 good drainage for, Mar 10:50

iron deficiency in, Sep 02:8

landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:43 native varieties, Jan 99:9

'Nellie R. Stevens,' Jan 99:8

'Pride of Houston,' May 14:50

screen plant, May 10:50

verticillata, Sep 14:42

vomitoria, Sep 14:42 Illig, Lillian

Bougainvillea, Jul 04:24

cuttings, Nov 08:24 great compost, Nov 07:32

great roses, Jan 03:30, Mar 03:5

tomatoes from seed, Nov 05:20 using your five senses, Jul 99:34

Impatiens plant trials, Sep 06:30

India, plants from batatas (sweet potato), Sep 06:20

Indian currant. see Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Indian Mound Nursery (Alto), Nov 06:14

Indian paintbrush. see Castilleja indivisa

Indiangrass Post Oak Woodlands native, Jan 00:21

warm season grass, Nov 00:24 indigo spires. see Salvia

Inman, Norma

the gray clay pot, Jul 13:13

insecticides horticultural oils, May 01:9, 24, May 10:43

microbial, May 00:21 miticides, May 00:21

safe disposal, May 99:32

soaps, May 01:23, Jul 05:18, May 10:43

insects see also beneficial creatures; names of

specific insects


dietary experiments, Nov 06:46

fall relocation, Nov 06:46 habitat for, Mar 18:40

herbs to repel, May 04:22

in lawns, Jul 00:33 organic control, Jul 05:17

primer, May 00:18

vector behind Pierce's disease, Nov 06:12 integrated pest management, Mar 07:47

intercropping vegetables, Jan 18:43

International Ag Labs The Tomato Project, Jan 17:44

International Festival-Institute at Round Top,

Jul 02:12

International Waterlily Collection (San

Angelo), Jul 11:26

interplanting, Jul 15:26

Inula helenium (elecampane) for southern physic garden, Jul 02:16

invasive species aliens in our midst, May 02:38, Mar 07:43

avoiding exotics, Jan 11:4

avoiding native, Sep 08:25 getting rid of, Jul 08:45

loosestrife, Mar 01:6

moringa? Mar 18:6 Russian olive, Mar 01:6

Ipomoea alba (moonflower), May 01:49, Jan 03:42,

Mar 04:39, May 13:42, Jul 13:23

annual vine, Jan 03:41 batatas (sweet potato)

flowering vine, Mar 14:34

for foliage, Mar 03:43 heat-tolerant, May 05:45, May 06:46


trailing for containers, Jan 14:42 fistulosa (bush morning glory), May 05:44,

May 06:46

lobata (firecracker vine), Jan 03:42 x multifida (cardinal climber vine), May

03:32

pandurata, Jan 04:45 pests on, Mar 04:46

quamoclit (cypress vine), Jan 03:42, May

13:28, Jan 14:5, Mar 14:32 starting, Mar 05:46

trichocarpa (purple bindweed), Sep 00:36

tropical vine, May 17:27, 28

Iris x albicans, Nov 01:44, May 08:46

aril, Jul 04:29 bearded, Jul 04:28, Sep 11:26

beardless, Jul 04:30

color change? Jul 10:50, Sep 10:5 dividing, Sep 13:50

for fall planting, Sep 01:28

fulva, Nov 08:46 giganticaerula, Nov 08:46

growing trouble-free, Jul 03:47

hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:40 Hodges Iris Garden (Covington), Jul 04:26

language of flowers, Jan 02:31

Louisiana, Jul 00:40, Mar 01:34 no-bloom, May 11:50

repeat-blooming, Sep 11:26

rust on, Jan 05:46 transplanting, Sep 99:8

walking, Nov 14:50

when to move, Mar 08:50

iris, butterfly. see Dietes

iron chelated form for lawns, May 00:11

deficiency in holly, Sep 02:8

iron wood. see Bumelia lanuginose ironweed. see Vernonia

irrigation systems see also drip irrigation systems; sprinkler

systems; watering

for blackberries, Nov 99:16

for fruit, nut plants, Nov 01:9 for landscapes, Mar 05:18, May 06:15

rainwater storage systems, May 16:34

repair, May 18:25 typical mistakes in, May 03:11

Itea virginica (Virginia sweetspire) for bog water garden, Nov 08:47

ivy, English. see Hedera helix

ivy, Swedish. see Plectranthus

J jaboticaba, Nov 16:21

jacaranda tree, Sep 06:50

Jackman, John A. (and Bastiaan M. Drees) bugs, beneficial to beastly, May 00:18

Jackson vine. see Smilax smallii

Jacobs, Brian The rabbit and the reel mower, Sep 03:12

jail gardens. see correctional facility gardens

Janda, Doug (greenhouse owner), Nov 14:34

Japanese beetles on roses, Nov 00:47

Jarvis, Bill (Farmer In The City's Daylily

Seeds), Sep 02:21

Jasinski, Laurie E.

The little elms that could, Sep 02:11 jasmine, cape. see Gardenia

jasmine, star. see Trachelospermum

jasminoides

Jasminum effects of temperature, Jan 99:12

groundcover, Sep 99:12, Nov 01:10 language of flowers, Jan 02:31


polyanthum, Jan 14:43 repairing cold damage, Jan 01:12

sambac, Mar 09:47

javelinas, May 01:46 Jekyll, Gertrude, Nov 05:25

Jenkins, John (gardener), Sep 15:38

jessamine. see Cestrum; Murraya paniculata Jett, Walter and Margaret (gardeners), Sep

00:14 Jobe, Bill and Mary Louise (gardeners), Jul

16:45

Jobe, Stanley fall "new potatoes," Sep 10:24

multiplying onions, Jul 09:24

Johansson, Keith (Metro Maples), Sep 07:28 Johnny jump-ups. see Viola

Johnson, Brent (urban farmer), Nov 13:38

Johnson grass invasive species, Mar 07:44

Johnson, Jerral

pruning, Nov 98:30 Johnson, Joy

how to kill a mesquite, Mar 00:13

Johnson, Larry (EzGro Garden), Sep 15:20 Johnson's Backyard Garden, Nov 13:38

Jollisant, Larry (strawberry grower), Jul

15:36

Jones, Audrey

code of the cantaloupe, May 13:13 wintering ladybugs, Nov 08:13

Jones, Peggy

hardy hibiscus, Jan 15:31 NE Texas daffodil explosion, Nov 10:20

Jons, John, Sep 16:32

Joseph's coat. see Alternanthera journals, Nov 04:40

jujube dwarf varieties, Mar 12:24 harvesting, Jul 99:9

plant profile, Jul 01:23, Jan 08:18

pruning, Jan 11:34 Junction Middle School, Sep 12:39

Junfin, Frank and Adele (owner/operators of

Kunafin), May 00:22

juniper bagworm on, Mar 03:11

cemetery plantings, May 08:46

Chinese, Nov 08:34

Rocky Mountain, Nov 08:34

Justicia brandegeana (shrimp plant), Jul 08:48, Nov

16:26

carnea (Brazilian plume), Jul 05:25 spicigera (Mexican honeysuckle), Jan 01:32,

Sep 03:26, Jul 11:48, Nov 16:26

K kalagediya, May 16:37

Kalanchoe hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:42

kale cool season green, Nov 08:42

for fall color, Jul 16:28 fall planting, Jul 08:18

great greens, Nov 10:14

plant profile, Sep 02:40, Jan 06:36, Jul 13:34

storing, May 14:17


kale, ornamental. see Brassica oleracea

Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) for native landscape, Nov 98:45

requires good drainage, Sep 99:10

k'an tsoi plant profile, Jul 04:15

Karish, Mary Analyn Abbey and moringa tree, Jan 18:20

biodynamic gardening, May 15:32

citrus, May 11:30 Coastal Bend Composters and Organic

Gardeners, Sep 15:36 community-supported agriculture, Mar 16:20

composting made easy, Nov 15:38

grass-free yard, Nov 11:42 healing gardens, Mar 17:22

hugelkultur, Mar 15:35

mango mania, May 17:30 Susan Portman, Jul 17:38

rainwater harvesting, May 16:34

Texas Rare Fruit Growers, Nov 16:20 vermiculture, Jan 16:34

Karrousel Farm (Hood County), Jan 99:36

Karsh, Mary Khazen guerilla farmers, Nov 14:42

Keeling, Terry

heat tolerant plants, May 02:26 standing cypress, Sep 02:15

Texas bluebell, Jul 02:36

kelp meal, Jul 03:40


Kendrick, Robb (lavender grower), Sep 04:26

Kennedy, Victoria squash-bug battles, Jan 15:13

keyhole gardens, Mar 14:14, May 14:5

kidneywood. see Eysenhardtia texana Killeen Municipal Court Garden, Jul 14:20

King, Carolyn

Dear Mother Nature, Nov 99:13 King's Nursery (Shelby County), Jul 06:43

kintsai plant profile, Jul 04:15

kitchen gardens, Sep 11:20

kiwifruit plant profile, Jul 01:24, Sep 17:40

knackaway hardy tree, Nov 98:42

Kniffen, Billy, Nov 12:18

Kniphofia (torch lily) plant profile, Mar 05:27

Koch Ranches (Medina County), Mar 16:22

kohlrabi harvesting, Nov 05:6

plant profile, Sep 02:41, Jul 07:40, Sep 16:14

koi life span, Sep 99:12

sizing pond for, May 01:12 training, Jul 99:11

komatsuna Asian green, Nov 12:24


Kosteletzkya virginica (marsh mallow) for bog water garden, Nov 08:46

Kott, Marylee M.

surviving Ike, May 09:24 Krenek, Marie

our greenhouse story, Jan 14:13

squirrels, Sep 15:13 tomatoes and mockingbirds, Mar 18:13

Krigia cespitosa (dwarf dandelion) native groundcover, Jan 00:36

Kubieck, Eli (independent grower), Mar 17:26

kudzu vine. see Pueraria lobata

kumquat, May 09:36, 37 Kunafin (BIIC company), May 00:22

kunn coi plant profile, Jul 04:15

kyona plant profile, Jul 04:16

L La Grange Farmers Market, May 14:40

labels recycled from window blinds, Jul 03:11

Labry, Suzanne

beekeeping, May 18:26

botanical pioneers, Sep 15:40 farms

Boggy Creek Farm, Jul 08:26

new face of urban farming, Nov 13:36 Osth farm, Jan 11:20

gardeners

Richard Ashton, Mar 13:32 Debra Brooks, May 14:22

Harley Clark, Nov 06:28

George Coulan, Mar 18:26 John Dromgoole, May 16:28

Jon Johns, Sep 16:32

Peter Loos, Jan 15:28 Maggie Ross McNeely, Nov 09:26

Rose Lady of Llano Estacado, Jul 12:20

Rey Salazar, Mar 09:18

Tom Spencer, Sep 09:18

Ann and O.J. Weber, Jul 13:26 gardens

Amarillo Botanical Gardens, Nov 11:30

Austin's restaurant gardens, Sep 07:14 butterfly, Jul 13:26

Dixondale Farms, Sep 14:20

genesis gardens, Jul 15:40 Hermann Park, Nov 17:20

Junction Middle School, Sep 12:38

keyhole, Mar 14:14 Killeen Municipal Court Garden, Jul

14:20

Lucinda Hutson's enchanted garden, May 09:20

Micro Farm at University of Texas, Mar

15:24 Oleander Acres, Mar 17:18

Peckerwood Garden, May 10:30

Pineywoods Native Plant Center, Nov

10:24

Riverside Nature Center, Jul 10:42

Sagra Trattoria and Bar/Sagra Buona Terra, Sep 11:30

Schrade Middle School, Nov 15:34

Shangri La Botanical Garden, Sep 10:20 Sibley Nature Center, Jan 13:36

Stonewall Jackson Elementary School, Jan 10:28

Sustainable Food Center, Jul 09:43

Texas Quilt Museum (and garden), Sep 13:42

Texas Tech landscape, May 17:18

Travis County Correctional Complex, Jan 12:36, Jan 16:22

Urban Patchwork, Mar 12:32

water gardens, Jan 17:32 Sylvia McCasland Williams, Nov 08:36

grapes, May 08:24

gravel walkways, Jan 18:28 have daylilies, will travel, Jan 09:42

Native American Seed, Mar 11:26

Nymphaeaceae, Jul 11:26 pecan, Jul 16:38

rainwater harvesting, Nov 12:18

sedge instead of turf, Jul 17:20 South Texas habitat worth preserving, Jan

14:32

Southern Seed Legacy, May 12:31 Texas rose rustlers, Mar 16:36

water-wise turf, May 15:35

labyrinths, Jan 07:38, May 07:5

lacewings for aphid, mite control, Jul 99:7

and pesticides, May 99:7 profile, May 00:24, Mar 01:21, Mar 03:18,

20, May 13:20

Ladewig, Robert (garlic grower), Sep 15:32 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Jul

15:4

ladybugs for aphid control, Jul 99:7, May 00:44

beneficial insects, May 00:24, Mar 03:20,

May 13:20 for mite control, Jul 99:7

and pesticides, May 99:7

wintering, Nov 08:13 lady's mantle. see Alchemilla xanthoclora

Lagenaria siceraria (hard-shell gourd) easy to grow, Sep 10:12

plant profile, Mar 99:26, May 04:40, Jan

12:32 in the weird-stuff garden, Nov 09:12

Lagerstroemia indica (crepe myrtle) bad location, Jul 07:5 bark scale, Nov 17:5

blooming, Sep 99:11, Jan 00:46, Mar 00:6,

Jul 00:46 cemetery plantings, May 08:46

crapemyrtle bark scale, May 17:44

deadheading, Jan 00:10 for fall color, Jul 03:43

in full sun, May 01:9

hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41 heat-loving, Jul 07:26

history, Jul 17:45

plant profile, Sep 04:42, Jan 14:26, Jan 15:48, May 15:45

powdery mildew on, Jul 99:8, Jul 00:12, Jul

02:8

pruning, Nov 00:46, Mar 01:9, May 01:14,

Jul 01:5

purple, Sep 06:50 selecting, Jul 03:8


suckers, Mar 14:50 Texas state shrub, Jul 06:47

training, Jan 03:9 transplanting, Jul 99:47, Jan 09:50

Lake Austin Spa Resort (Austin), Sep 07:16,

May 15:20 lamb's ear. see Stachys byzantina

lambsquarters. see Chenopodium

Lamium amplexicaule for health, Mar 17:24

weed control, Mar 12:50

Landon, Ken, Jul 11:26

landscaping

with 20/20 vision, May 06:14

avoid limited selection, Nov 07:17 backyard overhaul, Mar 15:28, May 15:40

for birds, Jan 06:43

cemetery plants, Nov 15:20 common mistakes, Nov 05:14

convincing the reluctant, Nov 01:12

for dogs, Jul 01:42 entryways, Sep 00:8

environmentally sustainability, Jul 07:46

fall makeover, Jul 14:38 habitat, Jul 08:45

highways, Nov 99:40

and home owners associations, Nov 11:42, Mar 12:5

labyrinths, Jan 07:38

as a legacy, May 02:11 Living Educational Landscape Project, Nov

00:30

low maintenance, Mar 05:14 mazes, Jan 07:42

with model trains, Mar 06:14

my Dad's backyard for kids, Mar 07:13 planning, Mar 02:7, May 04:50

regional, Jan 00:33

St. Augustine grass, Nov 11:4 Texas Tech University, May 17:18

using salvaged material, Jul 03:5

vs. restoration, Sep 16:42 water-smart, Jul 00:40

wildscaping, May 00:13, Jul 00:26

Lane, John


gardening with kids, Sep 99:24

Lantana camara, May 02:27, Jul 07:25

cool plant for hot months, Jul 01:20

deer resistant plant, Jan 07:15 heat-loving, May 06:46

horrida, May 00:28, May 02:27

x hybrida, May 07:44 managing, Jul 00:39

montevidensis, Mar 99:34, May 02:27, May

07:44, Jul 12:48, Jan 14:40 for summer color, May 04:27

larkspur. see Consolida; Delphinium

Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) for Trans Pecos gardens, May 99:16

lasagna gardens, Mar 10:38

Last Organic Outpost (Houston), Nov 14:42

Lathyrus odorata (sweet pea) annual vine, Jan 03:42, May 17:27


fall planting, Nov 03:7, Sep 12:43

for fragrance, Sep 06:8, Mar 09:47

growing in south Texas, Jul 12:24 plant profile, Nov 03:43

laurel, bay. see Laurus nobilis

laurel, cherry. see Prunus laurel, mountain. see Kalmia latifolia

laurel, Texas mountain. see Sophora

Laurus nobilis (bay laurel) classic Italian herb, May 10:20

fall planting, Sep 01:8 overwintering, Sep 00:7

Lavandula (lavender) angustifolia, Mar 02:38, Jul 02:15 bee-attracting, Mar 11:24

Chappell Hill Lavender Farm, Jan 07:26

drainage, May 10:50 fall planting, Sep 01:8

for health, Jul 07:32

Hill Country Lavender, Sep 04:26 for natural skin care, Jan 03:28


preserving, Jul 05:23 for scent, Jan 06:33, Nov 09:16

for tea, Jan 01:43

for Xeriscape, May 00:38 lavender. see Lavandula

lawns see also mowing; names of specific grasses;

sod

aerating, Jul 99:9

clear of leaves, Jan 02:10 drainage, Mar 16:50

environmentally friendly care, Jan 07:47

establishing, Jul 00:10, Mar 06:12 fall makeover, Jul 14:41

fertilizing, May 00:11, Mar 03:13

lakeshore, May 03:46 native turf, May 12:20

overseeding, Jan 02:10, Nov 04:11

pests and pest control, Jul 02:9, Nov 02:46 picking right turfgrass, May 05:14

preventive care, May 01:11

replacing with gardens, Jul 09:5

groundcover, Sep 99:11, Sep 00:12, Nov

01:28, Nov 98:10 low-maintenance plants, Mar 00:8

natives, Nov 11:42

prairie, Jan 00:8, Mar 00:8

sedge, Jul 17:20

water-smart plants, Jul 12:5 resisting cold damage, Nov 98:10

summer care tips, Jul 00:33

topdressing, Mar 01:11 water-wise turf, May 15:35

watering, Jul 99:9, Jul 01:10

weed control, Nov 99:11, Jul 00:10, Jan 02:10

Lawsonia inermis (henna) scented plant, Mar 09:46

layering, Jul 02:22, Jan 04:42, Jan 10:36, Nov

17:30

lazy daisy. see Aphanostephus skirrhobasis lead, Nov 15:28

leadwort. see Plumbago

leaf beetles, May 00:20 leaf-cutting bees, Nov 99:49, Jul 00:47

leaf-footed bugs, Sep 17:50, May 18:50

leaf rollers, May 99:44

leaf scorch, bacterial, Jul 00:12

leaf spot, Mar 02:31, Sep 10:50

leafminers, Mar 02:31 Leander, Patty

Adamsville, Nov 08:14

cover crops, May 16:14 gardeners

Bill Adams on tomatoes, Jan 12:20 Greg Grant, Jul 13:14

Dan Leonard, Jan 10:14

Trisha Shirey, May 15:20 Dan Sondgeroth on sweet potato, May

13:18

George and Mary Stewart, May 03:12 in their golden years, Nov 17:14

gardens

Gabriel Valley Farms, Jan 09:14 Lake Austin Spa Resort, May 15:20

mistakes to avoid, Nov 12:14

raised beds, Mar 16:14 San Antonio Children's Garden, Nov

12:30

season extension, Jul 14:14 straw-bale, Nov 16:14


Texas A&M Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Sep 10:30

vertical, Mar 13:14

Trials, Treasures in a Vegetable Garden (poem), Nov 10:35

vegetables

artichokes, Jul 09:14 Asian greens, Sep 17:14

asparagus, Nov 11:14

beans, May 08:14, May 10:14, Mar 12:14 beets, Sep 09:14

Brussels sprouts, Sep 15:14

cabbage, Sep 12:14 carrots, Jul 16:14

cauliflower, Jul 10:14

container gardens, Jul 12:14 cool-season transplants, Jul 17:14

cucumbers, Mar 10:14

edamame, Mar 17:14 eggplant, Mar 15:14

fall, Jul 08:14

greens, Nov 10:14, Nov 15:14 harvest-time tips, May 14:14

heirloom, Jan 17:14


kale, Jul 13:34

kohlrabi, Sep 16:14 lettuce, Sep 13:20

mushroom culture, Nov 09:30

okra, May 09:14 onion, Sep 11:14

parsnips, Jul 16:14

peanut, May 17:14 peas, Sep 08:15

peppers, May 12:14

root crops, Jul 11:14 runner bean, Nov 13:42

southern peas, May 11:14

spinach, Sep 14:14 squash, Mar 08:14

summer greens, May 18:14

sweet corn, Mar 11:14 sweet potato, May 13:14

Swiss chard, Jan 12:14

tomatillos, Mar 09:14

tomato blight, Mar 18:18

tomatoes, May 11:38, Jan 13:14, Nov

13:30, Jan 15:14, Jan 16:14, Jan 17:14, Jan 18:14

winter squash, Mar 14:26

leaves composting, Nov 99:34, Sep 02:10, Nov

02:11, Sep 03:11, Nov 04:12 garden asset, Sep 04:12

mixing into soil, Nov 02:6

mulching with, Nov 99:34, Sep 00:9, Nov 02:6, Nov 07:9

stockpile, Nov 07:37

tips for using, Nov 03:11

leek 'Arkansas,' Sep 00:7

plant profile, Nov 98:17 planter, Nov 10:5

legumes for color, texture, Jan 05:18 cover crops, May 16:14

Leigh, Micah

hurricanes, May 18:13 lemon balm. see Melissa officinalis

lemon grass. see Cymbopogon

lemon mint. see Monarda lemon verbena. see Aloysia

lemonquat, May 09:36

lemons citrons confits, May 13:31


for Texas, May 09:35, 37 Lennon, Lisa

beneficial flies, May 03:26

lenten rose. see Helleborus Leonard, Dan (potato man), Jan 10:14, Mar

10:5

Leonard Native Plant Garden, Jan 14:32

Leonotis leonurus (lion's ear) fall flowering, Jul 05:29

LeRoy, Tom, Nov 13:35 Lersch, Dee

flows a garden, Mar 09:13

giving a fig about Texas, Sep 05:12

Lespedeza thunbergii (bush clover) fall bloomer, Sep 04:43

lettuce All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37

in borders, Nov 04:5

butterhead, Sep 13:22


container-grown, Nov 01:13

fall planting, Sep 99:8, May 01:6, Sep 04:7, Sep 06:7, Jul 08:17

fertilizing, Jan 99:6

growing in winter, Nov 05:6 harvesting, Nov 05:6

'Hyper Red Rumple' (new for 2002), Jan

02:50 loose-leaf, Sep 13:20

plant profile, Nov 99:30, Sep 13:20

Romaine, Sep 13:21 salad gardens, Nov 04:30, Sep 11:41

seed to harvest, Jan 07:29

spring planting, Sep 12:50 storing, May 14:18

Leuchtenbergia principis as houseplant, Nov 03:33

Leucojum aestivum (snowflake) heirloom, Nov 01:44

spring bulb, Sep 05:44

Leucophyllum frutescens (Texas sage)

blooming, Jan 06:46 for health, Nov 00:42

shrub for privacy, Jan 05:46

langmaniae (Braue River sage), Mar 07:27 minus (Big Bend silverleaf), May 15:31

Lewis, Bob and Karen (Karrousel Farm), Jan 99:36

license plates, wildflower, Jul 15:4

licorice. see Glycyrrhiza glabra licorice mint. see Agastache (hyssop)

light for seedlings, Jan 02:35 sun and shade defined, Jan 01:28

sun exposure, Nov 12:14

light bulbs for season extension, Sep 02:28

lightning bugs, May 02:50, May 13:21

Ligustrum berries, Nov 12:29


sinense, Mar 07:43 lilac, Texas. see Vitex

lilies removing foliage, Nov 05:50 seed pods, Jan 06:46

Lilium asiaticum (Asiatic lily), Jan 12:45 candidum (Madonna lily), Jan 12:47

formosanum (Formosa lily), Jul 09:46, Jan

12:46, May 16:48 hybrids, Jan 12:46, 47

lancifolium (tiger lily), Jan 12:47

longiflorum (Easter lily), Jan 12:45 michauxii (Carolina lily), Mar 08:46

speciosum (Oriental lily), Jan 12:47

lily. see Lilium; Lycoris lily, Aztec. see Sprekelia formosissima

lily, bugle. see Watsonia

lily, calla. see Zantedeschia The Lily Farm (Center), May 05:26, Mar 14:36

lily-of-the-Nile. see Agapanthus

lily, oxblood. see Rhodophiala bifida lily, parrot. see Alstroemeria psittacina

lily, prairie. see Cooperia

lily, rain. see Cooperia; Zephyranthes lily, schoolhouse. see Rhodophiala bifida

lily, spice. see Manfreda

lily, spider. see Hymenocallis

lily, torch. see Kniphofia

lily, Viagra. see Dracunculus vulgaris lily, water. see Nymphaea

lime, Jul 03:41

limes (fruit), May 09:37 Lincecum, Gideon (botanist), Sep 15:44

Lindheimer, Ferdinand Jacob (botanist), Nov

06:26, Sep 10:46, Sep 15:41

Lindheimera texana (Lindheimer daisy) Lindheimer plant, Nov 06:27

lion's ear. see Leonotis leonurus

Lippia graveolens Mexican herb, Jan 09:30

liqueurs, Nov 08:29

Liriope (lilyturf) cutting back, Jan 06:11

gigantea, Nov 13:26 groundcover for shade, Sep 99:12

muscari, Nov 13:26

spicata, Nov 13:26

lisianthus. see Eustoma grandiflorum

lithops, Jan 11:23

Living Educational Landscape Project, Nov 00:30

living roofs, Jul 14:25

lizards beneficial creatures, Mar 00:46, Nov 16:13

green anole, Sep 04:13

Lobelia cardinalis, Mar 99:43, Mar 03:28, Nov 08:46

erinus, Jul 16:29

Lobularia (sweet alyssum) for borders, Jan 01:8

maritima, Mar 09:47 saxatile, Mar 07:17

locust, black collecting wild, Jul 99:46

longan, May 17:30

longlegged fly, May 03:28

Lonicera (honeysuckle) albiflora, Sep 05:18

x americana, Sep 05:19

x brownii, Sep 05:19 for fences, Mar 02:46

fragrantissima, Jul 02:45, Mar 09:47, May

13:41 x heckrottii, Sep 05:19

japonica, Sep 00:35, Mar 07:44, Sep 10:50

for moonlight garden, Mar 04:39 sempervirens

to attract hummingbirds, Nov 98:8

for green bean house, May 03:32 horn-flowered, May 13:28


plant profile, Sep 05:18, Mar 08:48 vine worth growing, Sep 00:35, Jan 17:30

Loos, Peter (botanist), Jan 15:28

loosestrife. see Lythrum

loquat bee-attracting, Mar 11:24

Japanese, Mar 06:28 plant profile, Jul 01:23

for southern Texas gardens, Nov 00:10

Loropetalum chinense (fringe flower) plant profile, May 04:29, Mar 18:33

lotus. see Nelumbo

Love Creek Orchards (Medina), Sep 00:26 love flower. see Agapanthus

love-in-a-mist. see Nigella

Love-Limato, June

dill for caterpillars, Mar 13:13

my Dad's backyard, Mar 07:13 sunflower volunteers, Jan 05:13

lovebugs, Nov 03:50, May 13:23

lovegrass, bigtop native as ornamental, Nov 98:20

Lowrey, Lynn (horticulturist), Sep 12:24

Luci and Ian Family Garden (Austin), Sep 14:26

Luecaena leucocephala leguminous tree, Jul 07:21

Luffa acutangula, Jul 04:17

argyptica, Jan 03:42 luna moths, Mar 07:20

lunar gardening, Jan 09:34, Mar 09:5

Lupinus subcarnous (bluebonnet)


texensis (Texas bluebonnet)

albino, Sep 10:5

as cover crop, Nov 10:5

fall seeding, Nov 99:9 Gig'em Bonnets, Jan 17:45

Jerry Parsons' creations, Jan 03:36

scented plant, Mar 09:47 seeding, Jul 07:50

state flower, Jul 12:45

Lycoris (lily) albiflora, Jul 99:32

aurea, Jul 99:32, Nov 12:40 cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:47

higanbana, Nov 12:40

radiata (red spider lily) fall blooming, Jul 99:32, Jul 05:30, Jul

06:35

heirloom bulb, Nov 01:45, Nov 12:40 plant profile, Sep 13:48

squamigera (surprise lily), Jul 99:32

traubii, Jul 99:32

Lygodium japonicum (Japanese climbing fern) invasive species, Mar 07:44

Lysimachia (creeping Jenny) hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41

nummularia, Jan 14:42

Lythrum (loosestrife) invasive species, Mar 01:6

M mache

cool season green, Jul 99:42, Nov 08:42 for special salads, Mar 00:7

Maclura pomifera (horse apple) decorating with, Jan 12:50

Maddux, Bernice

Bill Graves (gardener), Nov 98:32 flowers for the soul, Mar 02:11

Madeira vine. see Anredera cordifolia

Madonna plant. see Epiphyllum oxypetalum; Selenicereus grandiflora

madrone. see Arbutus xalapensis

maggots, onion, May 02:47

magnesium deficiency in tomato, Mar 02:32

langbeinite, Jul 03:41

magnolia deciduous, Sep 04:38

dwarf southern, Nov 17:48 landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:44

pyramid, Mar 08:47

saucer, Jul 02:44



Magnolia Hill Farm (Washington County), May 16:20

Mahler, David (botanist, landscape designer),

Jan 14:32 Mahlie, Mary (Master Gardener), Jul 16:42

Mahonia aquifolium, Nov 12:28 transplanting, May 13:5

trifoliolata, Mar 13:50

maiden grass. see Miscanthus sinensis

malabar spinach recipe, May 18:19

seed source, Jul 03:47 summer green, May 99:40, May 03:7, May

18:15

Malacomeles denticulata (toothed

serviceberry), May 15:31

mallow. see Hibiscus

mallow, common. see Malva sylvestris

mallow, desert. see Sphaeralcea ambigua

mallow, marsh. see Kosteletzkya virginica

mallow, rock. see Pavonia lasiopetala

Malpighia glabra berries, Nov 12:28

hardy tree, Nov 98:42 for Rio Grande Valley gardens, Sep 99:37

Malva sylvestris (common mallow) for southern physic garden, Jul 02:16

Malvaviscus (Turk's cap) arboreus, Jan 00:13, Sep 04:44 arboreus-drummondii

for health, Nov 00:42

heat-loving, May 02:29 plant profile, Jul 06:45

true native? Jan 04:44

arboreus-mexicanus, Jan 01:32 drummondii, May 06:46, Sep 06:44


transplanting, May 10:5 Mammillaria, Nov 03:33

Mandevilla fast-growing tropical vine, Mar 00:46 tropical vine, May 17:27

Manfreda guttata, May 14:30 maculosa, May 14:30

virginica, Nov 09:43, May 14:30

Mangave, May 14:30 mango, May 17:30

mangosteen, Nov 16:21

Manihot esculenta (variegated tapioca) heat-loving, May 05:45, May 06:46


mantids as beneficial insects, Mar 01:23, Mar 03:18

manure

chicken, Mar 05:47, Mar 13:39 in compost, May 99:11, Jan 01:7, Nov 08:50

contamination with herbicide, May 00:6

fresh, May 13:50 the poop on poo, Sep 17:22

rabbit, Nov 08:50, Mar 10:5

soil salt content and, May 01:6 manzanita. see Malpighia glabra

maple bigtooth, Sep 00:26, Jul 05:43, Jul 15:23, Sep

15:4

caddo, Jul 05:43

chalk, Mar 99:33, Jul 05:43

for Gulf Coast, Mar 01:46

Japanese, Jul 05:44, Sep 07:28 Metro Maples (Fort Worth), Sep 07:28

for Piney Woods gardens, Mar 99:33

red, Jul 05:44, Sep 15:29 Shantung, Jan 02:50, Jul 05:44, Sep 07:28

southern sugar, Jul 05:44

trident, Jul 05:44 maple bush, flowering. see Abutilon

megapotamicum

maps and mapping AHS heat zone map, Jul 99:7

USDA zone confusion, Jul 12:50

marguerite. see Felicia ameloides Marie, Karin

water gardens, Sep 99:26

marigold. see Tagetes marigold, pot. see Calendula

marjoram. see Origanum

market gardening, Nov 12:42

Marrubium (horehound) for health, Nov 00:42, Jul 07:32

invasive species, May 02:41 vulgare, Jul 02:16

for Xeriscape, May 00:37

marshes, Nov 16:44 Marshman, Leslie

tropical treasure, Nov 14:13 Martin, Bonnie

garden blog, Jul 08:24

Martin, Jeanie (Dixondale Farms), Sep 14:20 Martin, Wallace (Dixondale Farms), Sep 14:20

Masabni, Joe

garlic, Jul 16:20 Masabni, Joe, Jul 15:36, May 18:44

Masabni, Joseph G.

diseases in vegetable garden, Mar 17:43 Earth-Kind vegetable production, May 15:38

Mascagnia macroptera (butterfly vine) flower fiesta, Nov 04:18 heat tolerant, Nov 07:5

mast-fruiting, Nov 16:34

Master Gardeners, Jan 04:22, Mar 04:5, Jul 12:20, May 16:5, Jul 16:35, Sep 16:32

Master Naturalists, Jul 16:35

Mathis, Tammy Corby net yourself a greenhouse, Sep 99:38

Matricaria chamomilla (German chamomile) for health, Mar 02:38 for natural skin care, Jan 03:28

for pets, May 04:24

Matteuccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern) fern for Texas, Mar 08:23

Matthews, Diane

open garden, open heart, Mar 08:13

Matthiola (stock) for fall color, Jul 16:28

Mattiza, Dorothy Baird native beauties worth the hunt, Jan 99:16

in the wake of oak wilt, Jan 00:30

Maurandya barclayana (snapdragon vine) exotic vine, May 06:24

Maurer, Mary

Vitex, Sep 99:18 mayapple. see Podophyllum peltatum

mayhaw, May 00:8, Mar 02:47, Jan 15:5

mayonnaise, May 13:32 mazes, Jan 07:42

McCormick, Ann

Artemisia, May 02:30

companion planting, Sep 01:30

compost outpost, May 04:25 cottage gardens, Nov 05:22

Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Nov 02:22

garden gifts, Nov 06:34 garden indoors for holidays, Nov 07:28

garden journals, Nov 04:40

garlic, Sep 00:30, Sep 07:38 herbs

Asian, Jan 08:22

autumn in my herb garden, Sep 05:20 basil, May 06:32

for better health, Mar 02:36

dill and fennel, Sep 06:32 enhance the bounty with, May 05:32

grow your own spa, Jan 03:26

harvesting, Sep 03:28 for healthy living, Nov 01:20, Jul 07:31

lavender, Mar 04:20

lemon balm, Mar 07:28

lesser known, Mar 03:36

managing mints, Jan 05:38

Mexican for Texas, Jan 07:32 for pets, May 04:22

pioneer garden, Nov 00:40

for scent, Jan 06:32 secret agent herbs, Jul 03:22

show-offs, Mar 05:32 tea garden, Jan 01:42

Texas natives, May 01:33

thyme, Jul 04:38 vinegars, wines, oils, Sep 04:31

plant a valentine, Jan 02:28

preserving summer, Jul 05:20 propagation, Jan 04:40

scented geraniums, Jul 01:38

science of shadows, Mar 06:34 seed saving secrets, Jul 02:18

taste of the tropics, Sep 02:30

trees for health, May 07:28 veggies on the grill, Jul 06:22

McDowell, Debbie and Jim (Chappell Hill

Lavender Farm), Jan 07:26 McGovern Centennial Gardens (Houston),

Nov 17:21

McLeroy, Sherrie S. Munson grapes, Nov 04:14

McNeely, Maggie Ross (gardener), Nov 09:26

Medicago sativa, May 14:50 Medina Garden Nursery (Bandera County),

May 02:20

Melampodium leucanthum (blackfoot daisy) plant profile, Mar 10:48

requires good drainage, May 05:46


Melia azedarach (Chinaberry) invasive species, Mar 07:43, Jul 11:5

var. umbraculifera, Sep 14:45

melic, three-flower cool season grass, Nov 00:25

Melinus nerviglumis (ruby grass) ornamental, Jul 08:39

Melissa officinalis (lemon balm) culinary herb, Jul 11:35 easy herb, Mar 14:24


for natural skin care, Jan 03:28 for pets, May 04:24

for tea, Jan 01:43

Melocactus


as houseplant, Nov 03:34

melon see also cantaloupe; watermelon

'Amy,' Mar 04:47

crossed with cucumber, Nov 00:49, Nov 11:50

diseases, Jan 00:40, Jan 02:23

harvesting, May 07:8 plant profile, May 07:22

raising off ground, May 00:7

storing, May 14:18 supporting, Nov 12:5

melon berry, Mandarin plant profile, Mar 09:26

Mena, Ruth Grant (gardener), Jan 09:45

mental health gardening Rx for, Jan 18:13 Seasonal Effective Disorder, Mar 18:6

Mentha (mint) aquatica, Jan 05:38

arvensis, Jan 05:40

bee-attracting, Mar 11:24

harvesting, May 99:20 for health, Nov 00:42, Jul 07:32

longifolia, Jul 99:18

for natural skin care, Jan 03:28 piperita, Mar 02:38, Jan 05:38

plant profile, Jan 05:38 pulegium (pennyroyal), Jan 05:40

requienii, Jan 05:40

for scent, Jan 06:33 simple syrup, May 12:40

spicata, Jan 05:38

suaveolens, Jan 05:38 for tea, Jan 01:43

Mertz, J.A.

humate, Sep 99:14

mesclun

cool season green, Jul 99:40


mesquite getting rid of, Mar 00:13

honey, May 99:15 Metro Maples (Fort Worth), Sep 07:28

Meusebach, John (scientist), Sep 10:47

Mexican sunflower. see Tithonia

mibuna Asian green, Nov 12:24

plant profile, Jul 04:16 mice, Nov 14:29

Michelia figo (banana shrub) fragrant, Mar 09:46, May 13:41 plant profile, Mar 07:28

Mickan, Curtis (olive grower), Nov 14:39

Micro Farm at University of Texas (Austin), Mar 15:24

Micromeria fruticosa for scent, Nov 09:17

Mikania scandens (monarch vine or climbing

hempweed) for butterflies, Sep 02:37

mildew destroyed by composting, Jan 02:46

Miller, Dan R. going green with leftovers, Jul 11:24

Miller, Megan N.

scorpions, May 07:13 Miller, Wardell

collards, Jul 12:42

millet, Jul 16:26

mimosa. see Albizia julibrissin

Mina lobata for fall color, Mar 00:8

mining, Sep 15:50

minnows, gambusia in goldfish ponds, Jan 01:6

mint. see Mentha

mint, hummingbird's. see Agastache (hyssop) mint, lemon. see Monarda

mint, licorice. see Agastache (hyssop)

mintleaf. see Plectranthus

Mirabilis (four o'clock) jalapa, Jul 09:46, May 13:42

nocturnal flower, May 01:49, Mar 04:39, Jul 09:46, Jul 13:22


miracle berry, Sep 13:29

Miscanthus sinensis (maiden grass) for fall, Nov 16:26

fall flowering, Jul 05:30

'Gracillimus,' Jul 08:38

mist flower. see Eupatorium

mistflower. see Conoclinium greggii misting systems, Jul 99:22

mistletoe hackberry source of, Nov 00:10

mites see also spider mites as beneficial insects, Mar 03:18

pests of bees, Sep 99:7

on strawberry, Mar 00:9 miticides, May 00:21

mizuna, Nov 12:24

Mobile Loaves and Fishes (East Austin), Jul 15:40

mock orange. see Philadelphus coronarius

model trains, Mar 06:14 mold, Jul 09:50, May 12:50

moles, Sep 06:24, Sep 11:50, Jan 12:50

molokhia plant profile, May 02:15

summer green, May 99:40, May 18:16

monarch vine. see Mikania scandens

Monarda (bee balm) bartletti x fistulosa, Sep 06:30

citriodora (lemon mint), May 01:33 didyma


for health, Nov 00:42, Jul 07:32 preserving, Jul 05:23

for tea, Jan 01:43

nativars, Jan 17:41 plant profile, Mar 05:33

southeastern neighbor, May 07:26

Montgomery, Jerry, Nov 05:44

moon gardens, Mar 04:38, Jul 13:22

planting by, Jan 00:25 Moon, Brent

bananas, Jul 09:20

plumeria, Jul 10:34 water gardening, Sep 09:22

winter-hardy cacti and succulents, Nov 09:40

moon vine. see Calonyction aculeatum moonflower. see Ipomoea

Moraea iridioides (butterfly iris) plant profile, Sep 07:42

Morella cerifera (wax myrtle) berries, Nov 12:28

Morgan, David L.

small trees that POP! Nov 98:40

moringa invasive? Mar 18:6

the miracle tree, Jan 18:20

unique summer green, May 99:42 morning glory. see Convolvulus; Ipomoea

mosquito plant. see Agastache (hyssop)

mosquitoes bats and, Nov 98:24

controlling, Nov 00:6, Jul 03:44

prevent breeding, Jul 02:10 water gardens and, Jul 04:5

moss-rose. see Portulaca

mosses native groundcover, Jan 00:35

mother-of-many. see Kalanchoe

moths beneficial, May 13:22

catalpa sphinx, Jul 13:45

luna, Mar 07:20

underwing, Jan 05:47

mountain laurel. see Kalmia latifolia

mountain laurel, Texas. see Sophora

mowers blades, May 00:11

maintenance, Mar 99:9, Nov 99:11, Sep 00:13, Jan 01:12, Nov 01:10

The Rabbit and the Reel Mower, Sep 03:12

mowing height, May 99:10, Jul 99:9, Mar 01:10, May

01:12 leave clippings, May 01:11

life-long passion, Jul 01:13

mow strips on highways, Nov 99:42 thatch buildup, May 00:11

wildflower meadows, Mar 09:13

Moy, Ying Doon (horticulturist), Jan 15:20 Mueller, Cynthia (horticulturist), Nov 17:38

Mueller, Ken

dried red tomatoes, May 99:28 your own cotton patch, May 99:12

mugwort. see Artemisia

Muhlenbergia (muhly) capillaris, Jul 08:37

for fall, Nov 16:26

Lindheimer for Hill Country gardens, Nov 98:29

landscaping alternative, Mar 99:7

plant profile, Nov 98:21 warm season grass, Nov 00:24

pine, Nov 00:24

seep, Nov 00:24

mulches and mulching see also row covers

alfalfa hay, Nov 00:44 cedar, Jul 03:47

choosing, May 02:46

color, Jan 99:29, Nov 05:47 depth of, May 02:9, Jul 02:6

fabric, May 06:40

for frost protection, Sep 06:42 gravel for highways, Nov 99:41

high-tech primer, Mar 00:16

leaves, Nov 99:34, Sep 00:9 from Louisiana, May 06:44


for low maintenance landscaping, Mar 05:18 newspaper, Nov 12:50

organic gardening and, Jan 01:16, Mar 11:39

paper, Sep 01:38, May 06:39, Nov 12:50


pathways, Sep 10:49

pine needles, Jan 05:5, Mar 05:5 plant debris, Nov 07:50

plastic, Mar 01:7, Jul 03:50

rice hulls, Jul 15:50 snakes and, Jan 99:44

soil winter care, Nov 06:24

stop sale of cypress, Jan 07:47 vegetables, Jul 00:7

for water conservation, Jul 12:35

for weed control, May 02:6, May 06:42, Jan 10:5, Jan 12:41

what to add to mulch bed, Jan 07:48

woody plants, Nov 99:11, Sep 01:9, Nov 98:8

mullein. see Verbascum thapsus

Munson, T.V. (grape breeder), Mar 17:36 Murphy, Sandra

death of a red-leather Mary Jane, Sep 16:13

Murray, Donna

secrets in the garden, Jul 12:13

shift change in the garden, Nov 13:13

Why does it take so long? Jul 10:13

Murraya koenigii, Nov 09:18

paniculata, Sep 06:21 muscadine. see grape

Muscari (grape hyacinth) hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:42

neglectum (starch hyacinth), Sep 05:44

museums Heard Natural Science Museum, Jan 09:38

Lindheimer homestead, Nov 06:26

Texas Quilt Museum (and garden), Sep 13:42 Musgrave, Kathy

cut flower experience, Mar 03:40

mushrooms compost, May 03:46

culture, Nov 09:30

growing gourmet, Jul 06:41 music, gardens are like, Jul 14:45

mustard, Jul 11:50, May 16:17

mustard greens All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37

Chinese, Nov 12:23

cool season green, Nov 08:42 fall planting, Jul 08:17, Sep 17:15


plant profile, Sep 07:34 recommended varieties, Jan 99:7

Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle) controlling, May 12:50 for health, May 07:29


language of flowers, Jan 02:31 plant profile, Nov 14:48

trimming, Nov 99:12

Myristica fragrans (nutmeg) classic Italian spice, May 10:25

myrtle, creeping. see Vinca

myrtle, true. see Myrtus communis myrtle, wax. see Myrica cerifera

Myrtus communis (true myrtle) for scent, Nov 09:17

N Nandina

see also bamboo domestica (heavenly bamboo), Nov 12:29

drought-proof plant, Mar 06:24

'Gulfstream,' Mar 00:10, Jul 03:43

'Harbor Dwarf,' Mar 00:10

invasive, May 06:5 not invasive, Mar 13:5

sterile, May 13:5

naranjilla. see Solanum

Narcissus (daffodil) fragrant, May 13:42

heirloom, Sep 00:22, Nov 12:37, Jan 16:45 x intermedius, Jan 05:43, Sep 05:44

jonquilla, Jan 05:43, May 08:46, Mar 09:46,

Jan 10:47 'King Alfred,' Sep 09:5


NE Texas explosion, Nov 10:20 x odorus, Jan 05:43, Sep 05:43

pseudonarcissus, Jan 05:44, Jan 10:46

smaller varieties better, May 01:47 sources of, Jan 01:6

tazetta

cemetery plantings, May 08:46


naturalizing, Jan 05:44

scented plant, Mar 09:46 spring bulb, Sep 05:43

for winter garden, Jul 02:45

timing of planting, May 99:44 winter color, Nov 03:17

Nasella tenuissima (Mexican feather grass) native grass as ornamental, Jul 08:39, Nov

98:20

plant profile, May 17:48 Nasti, Cecilia

manure madness, May 99:11

nasturtium. see Tropaeolum Native American Seed (Junction), Nov 00:8,

Sep 02:22, Mar 11:26

Native Americans green beans, May 12:5

Native Plant Information Network, Mar 07:47

native plants see also wildflowers

avoiding invasives, Sep 08:25

challenge of, Jan 99:16 companions, Mar 15:4

A.E. Leonard Native Plant Garden, Jan 14:32

ferns, May 00:40 grasses, Nov 00:22

groundcovers, Jan 00:34

growing from seed, Mar 09:50 habitat gardens, Jul 08:45

highway landscaping, Nov 99:40

with Mexican origins, Jan 01:32, Sep 03:25 nativars, Jan 17:38

Native American Seed, Nov 00:8, Sep 02:22,

Mar 11:26 Native Plant Information Network, Mar

07:47

Natives of Texas, Sep 02:22 overwatering, Sep 01:46

perennials, May 00:30

Pineywoods Native Plant Center, Nov 10:24 Post Oak Woodlands, Jan 00:20

prairie, Jan 00:8

preserving, Jan 07:43 Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve, May

13:34

in small garden retreats, Nov 99:26 sources of, Mar 07:50

spring reseeding annual, Nov 01:29

Sul Ross State University Native Plant

Propagation Program, May 15:26

Texas adaptations, Nov 11:45 Texas Heritage Garden, Jan 01:34

tips and techniques, May 02:23

what's truly native? Jan 04:44, Mar 04:5 Natives of Texas (Kerrville), Sep 02:22

The Natural Gardener (Austin), May 16:28

nature centers Pineywoods Native Plant Center, Nov 10:24

South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature

Center, Mar 09:22 necklace pod. see Sophora

nectar plants, Mar 07:14

nectarine container grown, Nov 09:22

pruning, Jan 11:34

source for trees, Nov 14:5 white, Sep 14:33

neem for black spot, Jan 02:46

for pest control, May 01:24, May 10:43

for squash bugs, Jan 02:24

neem, black. see Murraya Neher, Roy

buntings, May 15:12

neighborhood gardens Urban Patchwork, Mar 12:32

neighbors save the tomatoes, Nov 14:4

Neiman, Bill (Native American Seed), Sep

02:22, Mar 11:26

Nelumbo (lotus) Asian vs. American, Mar 18:30

for bog water garden, Nov 08:46 growing, Mar 18:31

order early, Jan 01:12

plant profile, Mar 04:28 vs. water lily, Mar 18:29

nematodes beneficial, May 13:21 controlling, Jan 01:17, Nov 02:47, Nov

04:47, Sep 05:46

reducing numbers of, Jul 04:6 root knot, Mar 02:30, May 15:24

rye for, Mar 11:50, Nov 15:4

on squash, Jan 18:50 on sweet potatoes, May 99:44

Nemerov, Howard

seed-starting at home, Sep 12:34

Neobessya missouriensis winter-hardy cactus, Nov 09:43

Nepeta (catmint or catnip) cataria, Jul 00:8, Mar 03:36, May 04:24, Sep

15:22

clarkei, Sep 15:25 x fassenii, Sep 15:22

grandiflora, Sep 15:24

low maintenance perennial, Sep 01:7 managing, Jul 00:39


nervosa, Sep 15:24 plant profile, Sep 15:22

racemosa, Sep 15:23

subsessilis, Sep 15:24 teydea, Sep 15:25

Nerium (oleander) cold hardy, Sep 04:50 fungi on, Mar 15:50

pruning, Jul 05:46

stressed, Sep 00:47


watering, Nov 00:6

Nesbitt, Monte blackberries, Jul 17:42

nettle, painted. see Solenostemon

scutellarioides New Year's Day herbs, Nov 10:39

New Zealand natives, Jan 12:28

Nicotiana (flowering tobacco) for bright-shady areas, May 03:7

nocturnal flower, May 01:49, Mar 04:38, Jul

09:46, Jul 13:24 scented plant, Mar 09:46

Nierembergia 'Starry Eyes' adaptable, Jan 07:8

Nigella (love-in-a-mist) spring reseeding annual, Nov 01:28

night blooming cereus. see Selenicereus grandiflora

nightshade. see Solanum

nitrogen deficiency in tomato, Mar 02:32

fertilizer basics, Jan 99:22

organic vs. inorganic, Mar 04:5 Nokes, Jill

Texas perennials for year-round color, May

00:30

Nolina lindheimeriana, Nov 06:27 texana, May 01:41

Nolo Bait, Jan 08:50, Mar 11:50

Nonemaker, Zoe Agastache, Jan 06:25

Austin garden oasis, Mar 09:30

cool plants for hot months, Jul 01:18 lavender, Jan 07:26

luna moths, Mar 07:20

mallows, Jan 02:32 mature gardens, Nov 05:32

native groundcover, Jan 00:34

old narcissus, Sep 00:22 Nord, Beverly

blackberries, Sep 07:36

figs, May 07:32 persimmons, Nov 07:34

Notocactus as houseplant, Nov 03:33

nurseries see also greenhouses

Gabriel Valley Farms, Jan 09:14 King's Nursery, Jul 06:43

Medina Garden Nursery, May 02:20

Metro Maples, Sep 07:28 review of Texas retailers, Sep 02:20

starting, Sep 05:47

terminology used, Mar 01:14 Texas Forest Service seedling program, Nov

06:14

Village Farms, Nov 02:14

nurserymen Thomas Affleck, Sep 15:42

nut grass, Mar 00:47, Jul 02:46, Mar 03:45 nutmeg. see Myristica fragrans

nutrient deficiencies see also names of specific nutrients troubleshooting, May 17:41

nutsedge, May 06:41

Nymphaea (water lily) for bog water garden, Nov 08:46

hardy vs. tropical, Mar 18:28

International Waterlily Collection, Jul 11:26

vs. lotus, Mar 18:29

Nymphoides (water snowflake) for small ponds, Sep 04:18

O oak


Burr, Sep 99:10, Nov 13:50, Jan 15:50, Sep

15:4 chinkapin, Jul 99:29, 47, Sep 99:6, Sep 05:45

chinquapin, Mar 15:50, Sep 15:4, 27

lacey, Mar 02:45, Jan 03:50, Nov 10:48, Sep 15:27

live, Nov 02:46, Sep 15:28, Jul 17:32

Mexican white (Monterrey), Nov 99:12, Nov 05:45, Sep 15:27

oak wilt host, Nov 00:10, Jul 01:9

overcup, Sep 15:28 post, Jan 00:20, Jan 04:45, Nov 16:33

pruning, May 00:12, Nov 00:10, Nov 01:8

red, Jan 99:9, Sep 99:46, Sep 05:47, Sep

15:28, Jan 16:48, Nov 98:45

rejuvenating, Jan 04:47

scarlet, Jul 03:43 sensitive root systems, Nov 00:8

Shummard, Jul 03:43

Texas red, Jul 03:43 white, Mar 99:33, Nov 05:45

oak leaf rollers, Jul 04:48

oak wilt controlling, Jan 00:10, Nov 01:8

elimination of red oak wilt, Sep 16:5

planting in wake of, Jan 00:30 primer, Jan 99:9

red oak host for fungal mats, Nov 00:10

signs of, Jul 01:9

oats, inland cool season grass, Nov 00:25

obedient plant. see Physostegia

Oberwetter, Peter Heinrich (botanist), Sep

10:47

Ocimum (basil) americanum, Jul 11:36

basilicum

Asian herb, Jan 08:24 bee-attracting, Mar 11:23

'Citriodorum,' May 01:29

classic Italian herb, May 10:21 at Festival Hills, Jul 02:15

herb for tea, Jan 01:43

plant profile, May 01:26, May 06:32, Jan 10:21

'Spicy Globe,' May 01:29 basilicum minimum, Jan 10:21

basilicum var. citriodorum, Jul 11:36

blue, Mar 11:5 growing indoors, Sep 00:7

harvesting, May 99:19, Sep 00:7

for health, Mar 02:38, Jul 07:32 kilimanscharium x O. basilicum, May 01:29,

Mar 11:23

Lane's basil-pineapple jelly, May 13:30 'Magical Michael,' Nov 01:6

new varieties, May 03:6

plant profile, Jan 10:20 sanctum (holy basil), Jan 10:21


selloi (bell pepper basil), Jan 10:23 tenuiflorum (holy basil), Jan 10:21

tomato sauce, May 12:39

ocotillo. see Fouquieria splendens

Odontonema strictum fall bloomer, Sep 04:44

Oenothera (evening primrose) language of flowers, Jan 02:31

oils, herbal, Sep 04:31, Nov 08:29

okra Beck's Big, Jul 04:48

container-grown, Jan 10:50, May 11:50 fire ants on, Nov 07:50

germinating, Jan 99:28, May 03:7, Jan 05:46

harvesting, Jul 01:6 heirloom, Jan 17:4

patience required, Sep 08:50

plant profile, May 00:14, May 04:18, May 09:14

readers love it, Mar 17:5

seed source, Nov 05:5 semi-dwarf, May 07:6

storing, May 14:18

white flies on, Nov 00:46

Old Friends Farm (Amherst, MA), May 11:35

oleander. see Nerium

Oleander Acres RV Park (Mission), Mar 17:18 oleander, Mexican. see Thevetia peruviana

olive autumn, Jan 01:8 growing edible, Jan 00:46

invasive roots, Nov 15:50 Mexican, Sep 04:42

new Texas oil fields, Nov 14:39

plant profile, Jul 01:25, Jul 03:30, Mar 10:30 pruning, Nov 99:11

Russian, Jan 01:9, Mar 01:6

wild, Mar 07:50, Nov 98:40 olive oil, Mar 10:35

olive, sweet. see Osmanthus fragrans

ollas, May 16:34

onion


black fungus, Nov 02:47 blooming, Jan 08:50

bolting, Sep 06:50

container-grown, Nov 01:13 Dixondale Farms, Sep 02:24, Sep 14:20

fall planting, Sep 06:13, Sep 08:13

fertilizing, May 00:46 growing from seed, Sep 05:7

gumbo (multiplier), May 11:44, Jul 14:5

maggots, May 02:47 multiplying, Jul 09:24, Nov 15:50

plant profile, Sep 11:14, Nov 16:28

planter, Nov 10:5 planting, Jan 00:8, Nov 00:7, Jan 03:6, Jan

05:6

recipes, Sep 11:19 seed sources, Nov 11:5

softball-sized, Nov 05:36, Jan 06:46

storing, Jan 00:6, May 14:19 'Super Star,' Nov 00:7

and temperature, Jan 15:50

Texas Superstars, Jul 14:24 transplant size, Nov 99:44, Jan 02:6

wild, Jan 18:36

Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern) fern for Texas, Mar 08:22

Opuntia (prickly pear) cacanapa, Jul 13:43 cact-art, Jan 03:45

deer resistant plant, Jan 07:15

engelmannii, Nov 09:43


favorites, Nov 03:33

ficus-indica, Jul 13:30 imbricata, Nov 09:43


thornless, Sep 16 5

orach edible weed, May 18:18

orange blooming, Jul 03:46


mandarin, Jan 16:20 Satsuma, Nov 04:10

for Texas, May 09:34, 37

Texas Superstars, Jul 15:25, Jan 16:20 trunk damage, Mar 16:50

orange, mock. see Philadelphus coronarius

orange, trifoliate. see Poncirus trifoliata orchards. see fruit trees

orchid tree blooming tree, Sep 04:40

orchid vine. see Mascagnia macroptera

orchids anyone can grow, Jan 11:27

oregano. see Origanum

oregano, Cuban. see Plectranthus amboinicus

oregano, Mexican. see Poliomintha longiflora Oregon grapeholly. see Mahonia

organic farming. see sustainability

organic gardening Austin Organic Gardeners, Nov 04:34

beneficial insects, Mar 01:18 biodynamic, May 15:32

Clark's Farm, Nov 06:28

Coastal Bend Composters and Organic Gardeners, Sep 15:36

grandmother's way, Jan 02:11

keyhole gardens, May 14:5 mechanical pest control, May 01:20

The Natural Gardener, May 16:28

P/2 Organic (business), Jan 05:20 soil building and cultural practices, Jan 01:14

tips for fall, Jul 05:14

weed-free, Mar 11:38

organic matter for soil building, May 09:23

sources and benefits of, Jul 05:14

Origanum (oregano or marjoram) at Festival Hills, Jul 02:15

groundcover, Nov 99:11 harvesting, May 99:20


majorana (marjoram), May 10:21 x majoricum, Mar 14:23


for tea, Jan 01:43 vinegar, May 12:40

vulgare (oregano), May 10:21


ornaments Accents of Salado (garden accent retailer),

Jul 05:32 bringing farmhouse outdoors, Sep 00:14

decorate your garden, Sep 99:8, Sep 11:44

musical, Jan 05:24 secrets in the garden, Jul 12:13

southern folk art, Jan 03:44

Osmanthus fragrans (sweet olive) fragrant, Mar 09:47, May 13:40

Osth, Johan and Joan (farmers), Jan 11:20

overalls, Sep 16:45

owl nesting boxes, Jan 01:49

Oxalis (sorrel) cool season green, Jul 99:42, Nov 08:42

drummondii, Jul 99:33

edible weed, Sep 11:43 getting rid of, May 17:50


summer green, May 18:17 violacea (violet wood sorrel), Jan 00:34

P P/2 Organic (business), Jan 05:20 pac choi, Sep 17:16

Packycereus pringlii as houseplant, Nov 03:34

paintbrush, Indian. see Castilleja indivisa

Painter, Evelyn and Mark (teachers), Jan

10:28

pak choi Asian green, Nov 12:23


palms hardy, Jan 08:32

majesty, Jul 05:46 root rot, May 15:50

sago, May 02:11, Nov 06:25

palo blanco for Rio Grande Plains gardens, Nov 99:24

palo verde small tree, Sep 16:30

pampas grass. see Cortaderia selloana

Panax quinquefolius (ginseng) for southern physic garden, Jul 02:16

Pandora jasminoides (bower vine) plant profile, Jan 06:26

pansy. see Viola Panzarella, John (citrus gardener), Sep 03:18,

Jan 12:4, Sep 13:26

papaloquelite. see Porophyllum ruderale

Papaver (poppy) of Castroville, Jan 17:20

fall planting, Sep 12:42 nudicaule, Sep 07:26, Sep 12:43

orientale, Sep 99:9

plant profile, Nov 13:22 planting, Jan 01:8

rhoeas, Sep 07:26, Sep 12:43

somniferum, Nov 01:28, Sep 07:24 papaya, Jan 15:20

paperflower. see Psilostrophe tagetina

parasitic plants dodder, Jul 14:50

parasitoids, Mar 03:19

Parkinsonia x 'Desert Museum,' Jan 18:48


Parodia as houseplant, Nov 03:33

parsley. see Petroselinum parsnip, Jul 11:16, Jul 16:14

Parsons, Jerry

peaches, Mar 99:23 Parsons, Jerry (horticulturist), Jan 03:34

Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper) allergen, Sep 08:5 for fall color, Jul 03:43

for green bean house, May 03:32

for shade, Jan 00:46 weed worth having, Jul 08:43

particle film technology, Nov 01:50, Jan 02:23

paspalum, seashore, May 05:19

Passiflora (passionflower)

alatocaerulea, Mar 00:29 for butterflies, Mar 00:12, Sep 17:32

caterpillars and, May 00:11

edible fruit, Jan 04:47 foetida, Sep 00:36

foetida var. gossypifolia, Nov 06:50

incarnata, Mar 00:29, Sep 00:36, Jan 03:46, Jan 04:45

killed by drought, Mar 13:5

lutea, Jul 01:5 plant profile, Mar 00:24, Jan 13:26, Nov

17:42

pruning, Nov 03:47 for summer color, May 04:28

vitifolia, Mar 00:29

passionflower. see Passiflora

pathways crushed granite, Mar 10:50

gravel, Jan 18:28

mulching, Sep 10:49

paved, Sep 11:23

patios plant standards for, Nov 10:28

Paul, Jennifer

new Texas superstar, Nov 03:29 Paul, Rebecca

Pop's acre, Sep 13:12 Paulownia, Nov 01:46, Jul 11:50

Pavonia lasiopetala (rock rose or rock mallow) heat-loving, May 02:27 plant profile, Jan 01:18, Mar 17:48

pawpaw, Nov 16:22

pea see also Lathyrus odorata


blackeyed, Jul 00:7, May 11:14, Jul 16:50 cool-season, Jul 15:17

as cover crop, May 16:16

cream, Mar 03:46 English, May 15:5

fall planting, Sep 03:6, Sep 05:6, Jul 08:18

insect control on, Nov 02:46 'Mr. Big,' Jan 00:8

over-fertilizing, Nov 01:46

plant profile, Sep 01:40, Sep 08:15 shellers, Jul 03:5, Sep 11:5

southern, May 03:42, May 06:29, May 11:14,

Jan 12:5 staking, Jan 99:42

storing, May 14:19, 20

'Top Pick,' Nov 07:50 wasps on, Jan 18:4

peach backyard orchard, Jan 06:24 container grown, Nov 09:22

dwarf varieties, Nov 00:16, Mar 12:22

establishing, Nov 99:10, Jul 01:9 facts about trees, May 16:33

fertilizing, Jan 99:10, May 99:8

fruit size, Sep 07:50 fruiting, Jul 99:49, Mar 00:49


influence of weather, Mar 04:46 pests

bacterial spot, May 03:46

borers, Nov 04:47, May 05:46 fruit moth larvae, Sep 00:46

mystery, Mar 02:46

scale, Jan 00:10


suckers, May 06:50

plant profile, Mar 99:23, Jan 03:22, Jan 05:28, Jul 10:30

pruning, Jan 04:47, Jan 11:34

recommended varieties, May 04:49, May 05:46

source for trees, Nov 14:5

white, Sep 14:30

peanut plant profile, May 17:14

planting, May 00:47 via, not out, of Africa, Sep 10:5

pear backyard orchard, Jan 06:24 container grown, Nov 09:22

evergreen, Jul 02:45

fire blight on, Jan 99:10, Jan 01:10 invasive species, Mar 07:43

Kieffer, Nov 08:50

ornamental, Nov 03:18

Pineapple, May 02:46

plant profile, Nov 02:32, Nov 08:20

pruning, Jan 99:10, Jan 11:34 tree for fall color, Jul 03:43

winter care, Jan 02:47

pecan aphids on, May 99:9, Jul 99:8, Sep 99:11

backyard orchards, Nov 01:30, Nov 98:38 best for Texas, Sep 04:20

'Cheyenne,' Nov 00:10

'Choctaw,' Nov 00:10 copper spray, Jan 12:5

fertilizing, May 99:9, Mar 03:12

graftwood collection, Jan 02:10 harvesting, Sep 99:11, Sep 00:10, Sep 12:13,

Nov 98:8

'Hopi,' Nov 99:32 hulls as mulch, May 15:50

mast-fruiting, Nov 16:35

'Pawnee,' Nov 00:10 pinching, May 99:8

plant profile, Nov 01:30, Sep 06:22, Jul

16:38 plant spacing, Nov 00:10

for shade, Sep 15:4

squirrel deterrent, Jul 15:5, Nov 15:5 stink bugs on, Jan 02:25

storage, Nov 99:10, Sep 01:10

transplanting, Jul 01:42 trap cropping, Jan 02:25

water stressed, Mar 13:50

watering, May 00:10 webworm on, Jul 99:9, Sep 00:47

zinc application, Mar 99:8, May 99:8, Jul

99:9, Mar 00:10 Pechacek, Ed (mango grower), May 17:32

Peckerwood Garden (Hempstead), May 10:30

Pelargonium (geranium) x asperum, Jul 01:39

capitatum, Jul 01:39

x citronellum, Jul 01:39 citrosa, Jul 11:37

for containers, Sep 01:9

crispum, Jul 11:37 x fragrans, Jul 01:39

grossularioides, Jul 01:39

harvesting, May 99:20 language of flowers, Jan 02:31

odoratissimum, Jul 01:39


scented, Jul 00:8, Jul 01:38, Sep 01:9, May

18:36 tomentosum, Jul 01:39

Pellegrini, Gabriel (chef), Sep 11:30

Pennisetum (fountain grass) alopecuroides, Jul 08:37

for fall, Nov 16:26

setaceum, Mar 03:43, May 06:46, Jan 10:47, May 14:37

pennyroyal. see Mentha

Penstemon ambiguus, Jan 99:21

baccharifolius, May 01:41, May 04:28, May

15:30 J. David Bamberger, May 13:34

cobaea (wild foxglove), May 00:28, May

13:28 digitalis (husker red), May 13:28

'Dwarf Navigator' (new for 2002), Jan 02:50


tenuis, May 13:28

Pentas annual for summer, May 11:28 annuals in Texas, Jul 03:46

'Graffiti' series, Jan 06:29

pepper 'Aconcagua,' Mar 00:7

All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37 Anaheim-type, May 16:40

'Big Bertha,' Nov 02:5

'Black Pearl,' Jan 06:30, Sep 06:30 canned jalapeño, May 05:5

cayenne for health, Jul 07:32

chile pepper, May 18:32 'Chinese Giant,' Mar 00:7

diseases, Sep 12:50

fertilizing, May 02:6, 46 "ghost" chili, Mar 09:50


hot, May 12:15 'Hot Lemon,' Mar 00:7

Jerry Parsons' creations, Jan 03:38

'Laparie' seed source, Mar 13:5 mild/sweet, May 12:16

milder habanero, Sep 01:50

myth of cross-pollination, May 05:5 'NuMex Twilight,' Jul 15:25

as perennial, Jan 13:5

perennial, Nov 13:50 plant profile, Jul 00:17, Mar 03:30, Mar

05:20, May 06:30, May 12:14

poblano, Jul 16:30 storing, May 14:19

'Super Heavyweight' (new for 2002), Jan

02:50 TAM Mild Habanero, Nov 04:50

peppermint. see Mentha

perennials beds, Sep 09:38


dividing, Mar 04:9 encouraging new growth, Jul 03:7

fall-blooming, Jul 05:26, Jul 16:27

fall maintenance, Nov 16:24 fall planting, Sep 99:8, Sep 01:26, 45, Jul

02:29

fall watering, Nov 99:9 fertilizing, Nov 99:9

five faithful, May 00:26

fragrant, May 13:42

heat-tolerant, May 03:7, Jul 04:7

herbs, Mar 03:7, Sep 03:7, Nov 04:6, Sep 05:22

keeping in check, Jan 00:9, Sep 00:16

low maintenance, Sep 01:7 natives for year-round color, May 00:30

planning and maintenance, Jul 00:38

plant trials, Nov 04:27, Jan 06:31 planting tips, Sep 01:29

prolonging blooms, May 05:41

pruning, Nov 00:34 reversions, Sep 16:36

spacing, Jan 11:4

spring-flowering, Nov 99:9 for summer, Jul 01:18, May 04:26

Texas favorites, May 00:29

transplanting woody, Nov 14:22 unfussy, resilient, Nov 13:26

winter cleanup, Jan 08:40

Perez, Julio (community gardener), Nov 15:26

Perilla frutescens Asian herb, Jan 08:24

Texas immigrant, May 01:35 periwinkle. see Vinca

periwinkle, Madagascar. see Catharanthus

roseus Perry, Scott

English roses, Nov 00:26 garden as art, Jan 01:22

growing basil, May 01:26

passionflower, Mar 00:26 pH primer, Mar 01:30

Persian shield. see Strobilanthes dyerianus

persimmon astringent, Nov 03:9, Sep 05:9

for Blackland Prairies gardens, Jul 99:29

Christmas tradition, Nov 07:34 'Eureka,' Mar 00:47

for fall color, Jul 03:43

fertilizing, Jul 14:5 frost improves flavor, Nov 00:101, Nov 01:9

fruit drop, Jul 01:43, Jan 03:46, Sep 07:50,

Jan 10:50 'Fuyu,' Mar 01:10

growing basics, Nov 98:8

'Hachiya,' Nov 99:10, Mar 01:10 harvesting, Sep 99:11, Sep 05:9

for Hill Country gardens, Nov 98:29

Japanese, Sep 05:24 plant profile, Sep 03:38, Nov 09:48, Mar

11:34

preparing, Sep 02:9 pruning, Jan 11:34

rugged choice, Nov 98:43

slow fruiting, Mar 00:47 'Tamopan,' Nov 99:10

pesticides

alternatives to, Jan 04:50, Jul 08:5 contamination, Nov 15:29

misuse, Nov 12:17

natural, May 01:23 Take Down Garden Spray, Jan 01:49

pests and pest control see also beneficial creatures; biological

control; insecticides; names of specific

pests

birds for, Mar 99:13, Jan 01:49, May 03:34 chickens for, Mar 13:36

companion planting, Sep 01:33

cycles of, Nov 12:16


in fall garden, Jul 06:19, Jul 08:19

garden bandits, Nov 14:26 identification, Nov 09:5

integrated pest management, Mar 07:47

managing naturally, May 10:40 mechanical, May 01:20

neonicotinoids, Jan 16:50

organic, Jan 16:50 primer, May 00:20

removing old plant materials, Jan 99:6

seedlings and, Jan 99:29 sustainable, Jan 11:4

trap cropping, Jan 01:17, Jan 02:20

troubleshooting, May 17:39 two-legged, May 15:4

without poisons, May 08:34, Jul 14:13

Petrea volubilis (sandpaper vine) exotic vine, May 06:25

Petroselinum (parsley) for butterflies, Sep 17:33

classic Italian herb, May 10:22

cold hardy, May 07:5

crispum, Nov 00:42, Mar 02:38, Sep 09:31 fall planting, Nov 98:6

'Gigante D'Italia,' Nov 00:7

harvesting, May 99:20 for health, Jul 07:32

for natural skin care, Jan 03:28 persillade, May 12:41

spring planting, Jan 99:7

for tea, Jan 01:43

pets herbs for, May 04:22

in hoop houses, May 04:49

Petunia see also Ruellia

for fall color, Jul 16:26 'Giants of California Mix,' Jan 00:9

heat tolerant, Jul 99:7

x hybrida, Mar 09:46 'Laura Bush,' May 01:8, Mar 02:34, Mar

11:48

not blooming, Jul 17:50 from the past, Mar 17:45

plant profile, Jan 15:24

plant trials, Sep 06:30 sources, Mar 15:5

trailing varieties, Mar 02:7

x violacea, May 07:45, Mar 11:48

pH basics of, Mar 01:30

and calcium deficiency, Sep 04:5 changing soil, Nov 00:12

Piney Woods soils, May 13:50

ponds, Jan 99:13

Phacelia patuliflora native herb, Jan 00:37

Phalaenopsis orchid anyone can grow, Jan 11:29

Phaseolus caracalla, May 06:24 multiflorus (scarlet runner bean), Jan 03:41

Phaulothamnus spinescens (snake eye bush) hardy native, Mar 09:25

Philadelphus coronarius (mock orange) fragrant, May 13:41

hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41 Phillips, Kathleen

improving disease/pest resistance in roses,

May 16:26

olive groves, Nov 14:39

orchard restoration, May 16:32 post oak decline, Nov 16:33

regional veggies varieties, Jan 15:31

restoration after Katrina, May 07:20 rose breeder David Byrne, Mar 15:38

strawberry, Jul 15:36

vertical gardening, Sep 15:20

Phlomis fruticosa (Jerusalem sage) drought-proof plant, Mar 06:24


Phlox cuspidate, Mar 07:17

divaricata, May 00:28 nivalis ssp. texensis, Mar 08:47

paniculata, Mar 02:45, May 07:45, Nov

11:47, May 13:48, Nov 16:26 pilosa, Jan 00:21


phorid fly, Mar 01:49, Jan 04:50

Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax) plant profile, Jan 12:30

phosphorus deficiency in tomato, Mar 02:32


soft rock phosphate, Jul 03:41 photography, digital, May 05:35

Phyla scaberrima (Aztec sweet herb) plant profile, Mar 03:36

Phyllostachys aurea (golden bamboo) invasive species, Mar 07:44

Physostegia (obedient plant) intermedia, Nov 08:46

virginiana, Jul 06:33 phytochemicals, Sep 10:34

Phytolacca americana and corn, Sep 14:45

phytoremediation, Nov 15:29

Piccola, Anthony and Suzanne (P/2 Organic),

Jan 05:20 pick-your-own orchards, Sep 10:40

pickerel weed. see Pontederia cordata

pickles, Jan 16:42 pickleworm, Sep 12:50, Jan 17:50

Pierce's disease, Nov 06:12

pigeon berry. see Duranta pigeonberry. see Rivina humilis

pigweed. see Chenopodium

Pike, Leonard (educator), Sep 10:32 pill bugs, May 00:46, May 13:23

Pimenta dioica (allspice) for scent, Nov 09:19

pimpernel, scarlet. see Anagallis arvensis

Pimpinella anisum (anise) herb for pets, May 04:24

pincushion flower. see Scabiosa

pine

Afghan, Nov 08:33 Italian stone, Nov 08:35

loblolly, Nov 06:44

longleaf, Nov 06:44, Mar 08:46 love affair with, Nov 06:43

Mexican piñon, May 01:46

pinyon, Nov 03:47 short leaf, Nov 06:44

slash, Nov 06:44

pine bark borers, Mar 00:11, May 03:46 pine needles, Jan 05:5, Mar 05:5

pineapple Lane's basil-pineapple jelly, May 13:30

Pineywoods Native Plant Center

(Nacogdoches), Nov 10:24 pink, Indian. see Spigelia marilandica

Piper auritum (hoja santa) Mexican herb, Jan 07:32, Jan 09:30

pipevine. see Aristolochia tomentosa

Pipher, Jan

annuals cardinal flower, Mar 03:28

larkspur, Jan 04:13

reseeding, Nov 01:26, Mar 02:34 vines, Jan 03:40

drought-proof plants, Mar 06:22

fragrant garden, May 02:16 hand-me-down plants, Jan 02:40

night owl plants, Mar 04:38

perennials Cyclamen for winter-long color, Nov

02:20

five favorites for fall planting, Sep 01:26

hollyhocks, Sep 04:24

planning for and maintaining, Jul 00:38

pruning, Nov 00:34 salvias, Mar 01:26

sedum, Jul 02:38

for summer color, May 04:26 with vigorous perennials, Sep 00:16

shade tree gardens, Jul 03:26 shrubs

angel trumpets, Mar 05:36

sun & shade, Jan 01:28 tips for better blooms, May 05:41

water basics, May 03:22

winter color, Nov 03:14 xeric gardening, May 01:30

pirate bug, minute, Mar 03:20

Pistacia (pistachio) borers on, Mar 00:46

chinensis, Nov 12:29

for fall color, Jul 03:43 for northern Texas, Nov 10:50

pitcher plant. see Sarracenia alata

Pittosporum reversion, Sep 16:38

Plaisted, Dolores A.

Hurricane Ike's unexpected fruit, Mar 12:13 reinventing a front yard, May 09:13

Plant a Row for the Poor, Mar 14:4

plant breeding Jerry Parsons on, Jan 03:34

plant bugs. see bugs

plant introductions, May 07:44 Plant It Forward, Mar 16:21

plant terminology, Mar 01:14

plant trials Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens,

Nov 04:26, Jan 06:28, Sep 06:26

'Earthkind' rose trials, Sep 05:38 Overton Horticultural Field Day, May 09:30

tomatoes, Jul 17:24

planting guides, Nov 12:14 planting, timing of, Jan 00:25, Jan 03:17, Nov

12:50

plants hand-me-down, Mar 10:44

moving, Sep 03:4

selecting, Jul 10:4 sharing, May 04:12, Jul 09:13

talking to, Jan 01:13

water efficient, May 06:18


Platycerium bifurcatum (staghorn fern)

fern for Texas, Mar 08:25

Plectranthus amboinicus (Cuban oregano), Mar 03:37

australis (Swedish ivy), Jan 09:41, Jan 14:43 madagascariensis (mintleaf), Jan 09:41

oertendahlii (candle plant), Jan 09:41

thyrsoideus, Jan 09:41 pleurisy root. see Asclepias

plum backyard orchard, Jan 06:24 bacterial canker, Jan 99:44, Mar 99:8

container grown, Nov 09:22

dwarf varieties, Mar 12:24 iron deficiency, Nov 10:50


planting, Nov 99:10 pruning, Jan 11:35

Plumbago auriculata, May 06:47, Jul 07:25, Nov 16:25


plumcot plant profile, Jul 09:38

plumegrass, sugar cane. see Saccharum

Plumeria rubra (frangipani) plant profile, Jul 10:34

Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple) for Piney Woods gardens, Mar 99:32

Podranea ricasoliana (desert trumpet vine) fall bloomer, Jul 06:32

poetry Trials, Treasures in a Vegetable Garden

(Patty Leander), Nov 10:35

poinciana. see Caesalpinia; Delonix poinsettia. see Euphorbia

poisonous plants different parts toxic, May 02:5 information sources, Jul 02:5, Jul 05:5

poke weed great greens, Nov 10:17

pokeberry. see Phytolacca americana

pole bean, Mar 07:22, May 10:17, Jan 11:50,

Mar 18:14

Polianthes (tuberose) cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:47

fragrant, May 13:42

Poliomintha longiflora (Mexican oregano) for butterflies, Sep 02:37

Mexican herb, Jan 07:32, Jan 09:30 plant profile, Mar 03:38

Texas native, May 01:34

pollination see also bees


16:4 pollinators, May 07:46

squash, May 99:43

tips for better, Mar 06:40

pollution soil, restoring contaminated, Nov 15:28

Polygonum odoratum (Vietnamese coriander) Asian herb, Jan 08:22

Polystichum setiferum (soft shield fern), Mar 08:24 tsus-simense (Korean rock fern), Mar 08:24

pomegranate container grown, Nov 09:22 dwarf varieties, Mar 12:24


plant profile, Jul 01:22, Mar 07:38, May

10:34, Jul 16:48

pruning, May 07:50, Jan 11:35 ripeness, Jan 14:50

source for, May 08:50

for southeast Texas, Mar 09:50 supplemental watering, May 01:10

'Wonderful,' Jan 01:10

Poncirus trifoliata (trifoliate orange) hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:42


ponds see also fish

aerating, Jan 99:13, May 99:10, May 00:12

building, Mar 01:41, Mar 02:40, May 02:5, Mar 04:31, Nov 98:12

cleaning, Nov 99:12, Sep 00:13

curing new, Jul 01:12 dechlorinating, Mar 99:11, May 00:12

edging, Jan 99:13, Jul 99:10

filtration, Mar 99:11, Jan 00:12, May 00:12,

Jul 00:12

flowers for small, Sep 04:18

fountains in, Jan 99:13 liners, Nov 01:11, Jul 02:5

mosquito control, Mar 00:12

oxygenating plants, Jan 00:12 pH, Jan 99:13

plants for, Jan 01:12, Mar 02:42 shade for, May 01:12

size, May 00:12, Sep 00:13

snakes in, Nov 01:47 temperature, Mar 99:11

Waco Pond Society, Mar 01:38

water recirculating, Jan 01:12 winter prep, Nov 98:11

Pontederia cordata (pickerel weed) for bog water garden, Nov 08:46

Poore, Neal (and Terri Hudson)

organic tomatoes, Mar 00:33

Popp, Mason (restaurant gardener), Sep 11:30 poppy. see Papaver

poppy, California. see Eschscholzia californica

poppy seeds, May 17:5 porch gardens, Sep 07:13

porcupine grass, Nov 15:50

porcupine tomato. see Solanum

Porophyllum ruderale (papaloquelite) Mexican herb, Jan 07:35, Jan 09:31

Texas native, May 01:35

Porphyrocoma (Brazilian fireworks) plant trials, Sep 06:30

Portman, Susan (gardener), Jul 17:38

Portulaca (purslane) annual for summer, May 11:26

edible weed, Mar 04:18, Sep 11:43, May 18:18

grandiflora, Jan 14:41

for health, Mar 17:24 heat-loving, Jul 07:22

oleracea, Jan 00:37, Jul 16:50

pilosa, Jan 00:37 unique summer green, May 99:42

possumhaw. see Ilex

possums, Nov 14:29 potager, Sep 11:20

potassium bicarbonate for pest control, May 10:43 deficiency in tomato, Mar 02:32


langbeinite, Jul 03:41

wood ash, May 03:46

potato certified disease free, Mar 01:7

fall "new," Sep 10:24

fall planting, Jan 04:47, Nov 10:50 'Fingerling Salad,' Mar 01:7

fun facts and figures, Mar 00:49

Irish, Jan 11:46 Dan Leonard, Jan 10:14, Mar 10:5

organic seed potatoes, Jan 11:50

plant profile, Jan 01:20, Jan 05:14 planting, Jan 00:8, Jan 02:6, Jan 03:7

recipes, Nov 99:39, Jan 05:17, May 05:34,

Mar 10:24 'Red Norland,' Mar 15:50

'Red Pontiac,' Mar 01:7

in rose beds, Jul 08:50 smart gardening, Jul 13:4

storing, May 10:5, May 14:20

potato bush. see Solanum

potato, sweet. see Ipomoea; sweet potatoes

potato vine. see Solanum

Poterium sanguisorba (salad burnet) cool season green, Jul 99:42


potpourri, Jul 99:35, Jan 06:34 pots. see containers

potting soil make your own, Mar 13:25

powdery mildew controlling, Jul 00:7 on crepe myrtle, Jul 99:8, Jul 00:12

on roses, Nov 00:47

Powell, Michael (botanist), May 15:26 power washing, Nov 04:13

prairie, May 11:45, Jul 15:45

praying mantis, May 00:24, May 13:21 Prehn, Kelly

growing peaches, Jan 05:28

pressed flowers, Jul 05:22 Price, Paula Syptak

fire ants, Jan 06:13

rain harvesting, May 07:36 prickly pear. see Opuntia

primrose. see Primula

primrose, evening. see Oenothera

Primula (primrose) winter color, Nov 03:16

princess flower. see Tibouchina urvilleana prison gardens. see correctional facility gardens

privet, Chinese. see Ligustrum

Procter, Ross and Esther (R & E Plants), Sep 02:20

prop-roots, Nov 16:38

propagation see also specific methods of propagation

basics, Nov 17:26

fruit trees, Jan 10:32 methods of, Jul 02:22

plant "rustling," Sep 02:44

primer for, Jan 04:40 Sul Ross State University Native Plant

Propagation Program, May 15:26

protozoa, ant-eating, Jan 05:42 Pruitt, Tracie, Jan 09:42

Prunella vulgaris (self-heal) for southern physic garden, Jul 02:17 Texas immigrant, May 01:35

pruners maintenance, Jan 06:12


pruning

see also names of specific plants; shrubs; trees

central leader system, Jan 00:16

as dwarfing process, Nov 00:16 hedges, Jul 02:8

open center system, Jan 00:16

perennials, Nov 00:34 proper cut, Jan 04:8

for the right reasons, Nov 03:20, Nov 98:30

sealing cuts, Jan 02:8 timing of, Sep 02:50

vines, Mar 99:8, Jan 03:8

woody plants, Jan 01:9

Prunus amygdalus (flowering almond)

hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41 winter color, Nov 03:17

caroliniana (cherry laurel), May 18:46

Psilostrophe tagetina (paperflower) for High Plains gardens, Jan 99:21

Pteris vittata as contaminant filter, Nov 15:32

Pueraria lobata (kudzu vine) invasive species, Sep 99:47

pump maintenance, Sep 99:12, May 00:12

pumpkin controlling fungus on, May 02:6 growing, May 17:4

harvesting, Sep 99:8, Nov 99:8, Sep 00:7

'Orange Smoothie,' Nov 01:6 plant profile, May 02:34, May 06:20

ripening in reverse, Jan 13:5

'Sorcerer,' Nov 01:6 tropical, May 02:37

'Wee-B-Little,' Jan 99:6

purple heart. see Setcreasea pallida purslane. see Portulaca

Puryear, Pam (rose rustler), Mar 16:36

Pyracantha coccinea (firethorn) berries, Nov 12:29

pyrethrins, May 01:25

pyrethroids, May 01:25 pyrethrum, May 01:25

Q Quaker ladies. see Hedyotis crassifolia

queen of the night. see Epiphyllum oxypetalum; Selenicereus grandiflora

Queen's wreath. see Antigonon leptopus

quilts, Nov 13:45, Jan 14:5

quince dwarf varieties, Nov 00:17 pruning, Mar 01:10

quince, flowering. see Chaenomeles

Quisqualis indica (Rangoon creeper) vine for training, May 03:7

R R & E Plants (Weatherford), Sep 02:20

rabbits, Nov 99:6, Jul 00:46 raccoons, Mar 00:46

radicchio cool season green, Jul 99:42, Nov 08:42

radish container-grown, Nov 01:13

for fall garden, Sep 99:8 'Long Black Spanish,' Mar 00:7

oriental or daikon, Sep 99:30

plant profile, Jul 11:15 thinning, Jan 99:6

rain barrels, May 03:50

rain gardens, Jul 14:25 rain lily. see Cooperia

Rains-Campbell, Nell (farmer), Jul 12:20

rainwater harvesting active vs. passive, Sep 12:41

basics, May 07:36

Lori Haynes, May 16:34 Billy Kniffen on, Nov 12:18

McGovern Centennial Gardens, Nov 17:22

need for, Jul 08:47 rain barrel distribution, May 03:50

rooftop tanks, Nov 01:24

systems, Mar 17:40

raised beds on a budget, Jan 13:30

for early start on gardening, Nov 06:24, May 10:4

for herbs, Mar 00:22

in hoop houses, May 01:17

kitchen garden, Sep 11:22

methods, Nov 04:46

new gardens, Nov 14:15 over limestone bedrock, Mar 06:13

plastic corner stakes for, Mar 01:46

pressure-treated lumber, Mar 16:5 primer, Mar 16:14

repurposed troughs, Mar 13:5, Jul 13:5 types of, Mar 00:23

for vegetables, Jan 99:31

Ralston, Jeannie (lavender grower), Sep 04:26 Rangoon creeper. see Combretum indicum;

Quisqualis indica

Ranunculus (buttercup) language of flowers, Jan 02:31

repens, Jan 03:12

raspberry container grown, Nov 09:22

distributors, Sep 13:50

'Dorman Red,' Sep 99:47 fall, Nov 10:33


rats, Nov 14:29 rattan vine. see Berchemia scandens

recipes see also herb recipes; tomato recipes arugula, Sep 09:32

beans, May 08:18, 19, May 10:18

beets, Sep 09:16 blue cheese dressing, Nov 05:31

broccoli, Sep 05:16

Brussels sprouts, Sep 15:18 butter beans, May 10:18

cactus, May 08:43

cauliflower, Nov 02:5, Sep 04:16, Jul 10:19 cinnamon couscous, Sep 13:40

compost tea, May 11:42

corn, May 13:47, May 18:19 cucumber, Mar 10:19, May 15:24

cumin-chicken salad, May 05:33

dried tomatoes, May 99:28 eggplant, Mar 04:27, Mar 15:18

escargot, Mar 05:25

figs, May 07:34 focaccia, May 10:24

garlic, Sep 07:41, Sep 10:18, Sep 15:34

ginger, May 11:36 for grilling, Jul 06:23

heirloom, May 13:30

Indian spices, Sep 13:40

kale, Jul 13:38

kohlrabi, Sep 16:18 malabar spinach, May 18:19

mango, May 17:32

moringa latte, Jan 18:22 with Murraya, Nov 09:18

mushroom, Nov 09:33

for natural skin care, Jan 03:29 okra, May 04:20, May 09:18

onion, Sep 11:19

oriental vegetables, Jul 04:16 peas, Sep 08:18

persimmon, Nov 07:35

piccalilli, Jan 15:5 pickled nasturtiums, Jul 03:25

poppy seed, Sep 13:40

potatoes, Nov 99:39, Jan 05:17, May 05:34, Mar 10:24

potpourri, Mar 09:40

rhubarb, Jul 03:21

risotto, May 10:24

roasted garlic, Sep 00:32

root crop, Jul 11:19 rose brandy, Jul 03:25

salads, Nov 04:32, Nov 05:31, Nov 10:18,

Sep 16:18 savory herb butter/cheese, May 99:21

scented geraniums, Mar 09:40 southern peas, May 11:18

soybean, May 05:22

spaghetti squash lasagna, Mar 14:30 spinach, Sep 03:17, Mar 04:42, May 04:5

squash, Jan 04:38, May 05:33, Jul 05:46, Mar

08:19 stevia, Jul 09:33

sweet potatoes, May 09:47

Swiss chard, Mar 07:37 syrup of violets, Jul 03:25

tea, Sep 08:33

tomatillos, Mar 09:16 turnip, Jul 11:19

winter greens, Sep 07:34

recordkeeping, Nov 04:40, Nov 14:18

recycling dumpster diving, Jul 11:13

red bird of paradise. see Caesalpinia

red bud bee-attracting, Mar 11:24

blooming tree, Sep 04:39 canadensis var. texensis, Jan 10:48

Clara Barton, May 06:50

requires good drainage, Sep 99:10 small tree, Sep 16:28

Reed, Brenda H.

cold frames, Nov 05:28 compost happens, Nov 06:40

fowl in the garden, May 03:34, May 07:40

gourmet mushrooms, Jul 06:41 herbs, Mar 08:26, May 08:20, Jul 08:32

organic tips, Jul 05:14

pollination, Mar 06:40 vegetables

broccoli, Sep 05:14

Brussels sprouts, Sep 03:34 cabbage, Sep 06:37

cauliflower, Sep 04:14

early tomatoes, Jan 07:36 eggplant, Mar 04:24

growing great salads, Nov 04:30

heirloom tomatoes, Nov 03:26


kohlrabi, Jul 07:40

okra, May 04:18 oriental, Jul 04:14

peppers, Mar 05:20

pole beans, Mar 07:22 potato, Jan 05:14

soybeans, May 05:20

squash, Jan 04:37 start those transplants, Jan 08:36

summer, May 06:28

winter greens, Sep 07:32 Reed, Rachel Herrera

tangerines, Sep 08:32

Regar, Jennifer turf wars, Jul 02:41

regional gardens Blackland Prairies, Jul 99:26, Jul 05:13 central Texas, Mar 06:13, Jan 09:20

coastal plains, Jan 09:20

far West, Jan 09:19

High Plains, Jan 99:20

Highlands of Big Bend, Jan 13:40

Hill Country, Jul 00:13, Jan 09:20, Nov 98:26

keyhole gardens for arid, Mar 14:14

Live Oak Peninsula, May 15:5 northern Texas, Jan 09:19

perennials, Sep 99:34, Jan 00:33 Piney Woods, Mar 99:30, May 13:50

plants from the Big Thicket, Mar 08:46

Post Oak Woodlands, Jan 00:19 Rio Grande Plains, Nov 99:22

Rio Grande Valley, Sep 02:46, Jan 12:4

south Texas, Jan 14:32 southeast Texas, Jan 09:20

tomato varieties for, Jan 15:31

Trans Pecos El Paso, May 99:14

Republic of Georgia

gardening hands across the sea, Nov 13:14

resorts Lake Austin Spa Resort, Sep 07:16, May

15:20

restaurant gardens, Sep 07:14, Sep 11:30

retama tree for hummingbirds, butterflies, Mar 09:25

small tree, Sep 16:30 Reverchon, Julien (botanist), Sep 15:43


Reynolds, Bryan butterfly heaven, Sep 17:27

Rhaphiolepis indica (Indian hawthorn) berries, Nov 12:28 soils for, Sep 01:10

Rhapidophyllum hystrix (needle palm) hardy palm, Jan 08:32

Rhododendron (azalea) for acid soils, Jan 01:9

canescens (wild azalea), Mar 08:46 fertilizing, Mar 00:11, Mar 02:9, Mar 03:10

Rhodophiala bifida (oxblood or schoolhouse

lily) fall blooming bulb, Jul 99:32, Jul 05:30, Jul

06:34

hardiness, Nov 10:5 heirloom, Nov 01:45, Nov 12:39


rhubarb eating raw, Nov 03:5


plant profile, Jul 03:18, Sep 03:5

recipes, Jul 03:21

seed sources, Nov 04:46 success with, Jul 06:5

Rhus (sumac) aromatica, Mar 11:50, Nov 98:45 copallina, Mar 11:50

glabra, Mar 11:50

lanceolata, Jul 03:43, Nov 98:43 source for, Jan 16:5

ricegrass, Indian for High Plains gardens, Jan 99:21

Richter, Skip

annuals

Barleria cristata, Sep 14:48 Duranta erecta, Jul 14:48

fireproof, Jul 07:22

fragrant, May 13:42 shrimp plant, Jul 08:48

beating back bad weather, Sep 06:39

beneficial insects, Mar 03:16

biennials

ornamental kale, Nov 13:48

bulbs hardy amaryllis, Mar 12:48

rain lily, Jul 10:48

red spider lily, Sep 13:48 digital photography, May 05:35

fruit melons, May 07:22

persimmon, Nov 09:48

plumbago, May 06:47 pomegranate, Jul 16:48

gardening

bee-friendly, Mar 16:26 building great soil, Mar 14:40

compost, Nov 99:34, Jan 18:40

in deer country, Jan 07:14 disease control naturally, May 10:40

drip irrigation, Jul 09:34

fall, Jul 00:20, Jul 04:18, Jul 06:14, Sep 06:14, Jul 10:38

fall color, Jul 16:26

fall into spring, Sep 12:42 five terrific inventions, Sep 01:34

lazy, Jan 12:40

low budget, Mar 13:20 moving plants, Sep 08:26

mulch goes high-tech, Mar 00:16

multiply plant favorites, Jul 02:22 natural fertilizers, Jul 03:36

organic, Jan 01:14, Mar 01:18, May 01:20

pest control without poisons, May 08:34, May 10:40

planning, Jan 11:42

preparing for spring, Nov 14:14 propagation, Nov 17:26

prune with purpose, Nov 03:20

raised beds, Jan 13:30 reviving a "lost cause," Jul 00:22

season extension, Sep 02:26

seeds and seeding, Mar 06:36, Jan 10:42 in small space, Mar 13:42

sprout an indoor garden, Nov 02:36

troubleshooting, May 17:38 vertical, Mar 02:26

water-saving tips, Jul 12:32

weed wars, Mar 04:14, May 06:38 worm ranching, Nov 11:34

grasses, May 05:14, Jul 08:36

landscaping

with 20/20 vision, May 06:14

common mistakes, Nov 05:14 fall makeover, Jul 14:38

low maintenance, Mar 05:14

perennials Agave, Nov 16:48

Barleria cristata, Sep 14:48

beds, Sep 09:38 'Belinda's Dream' rose, Jan 05:45

blackfoot daisy, Mar 10:48

bulbine, Mar 05:45 cigar plant, Sep 17:48

coleus, Mar 06:45

columbine, Mar 07:45 copper canyon daisy, Nov 07:47

Cuphea, May 14:48

Duranta erecta, Jul 14:48 fall aster, Sep 06:45

fall bloomers, Jul 06:31

fall maintenance, Nov 16:24

fireproof, Jul 07:22

fragrant, May 13:42

Gaura lindheimeri, Mar 14:48 Knock Out rose, Jan 07:45

Mexican mint marigold, Sep 09:48

mistflower, Nov 12:48, Sep 16:48 oxblood lily, Sep 10:48

perennial hibiscus, May 05:47 phlox, May 13:48

pink skullcap, May 09:48

poppies, Sep 07:24 purple heart, May 07:47

Rosa, Sep 08:48, Sep 11:48, Jan 13:48,

Sep 13:14, Mar 16:48 rosemary, May 12:48

salvias, Jul 05:45, May 11:20, Sep 12:48,

Jul 13:48, Mar 15:48, May 15:48 Sedum, Sep 15:48

St. Joseph's lily, Nov 11:48

Turk's cap, Jul 06:45 winter cleanup, Jan 08:40

yucca, May 11:48, Jan 17:48

shrubs American beautyberry, Nov 08:48

cigar flower, Jul 09:48

coral honeysuckle, Mar 08:48 crapemyrtle, Jan 14:26, Jan 15:48

fragrant, May 13:40

Mexican honeysuckle, Jul 11:48 possumhaw holly, Nov 06:45

red bird of paradise, Jul 07:47

rock rose, Mar 17:48 roses, Sep 05:34, Jan 12:48, Mar 18:48

rusty blackhaw viburnum, Nov 04:45

southern wax myrtle, Nov 14:48 Texas mountain laurel, Jan 09:48

thryallis, May 08:48

yucca, Jul 15:48 zexmenia, Jul 17:48

soil

basic building 101, Nov 01:14 summer building tips, May 09:23

winter care, Nov 06:21

tomatoes basics, Jan 08:14

fall options, Jul 11:30

grape, Jan 05:32 problem solver, Mar 02:30, Mar 12:40

in small spaces, Mar 10:40

in the spring, Jan 04:14


for stuffing, Jan 06:40

supports, Mar 06:30 tips for, Mar 09:34, Mar 15:20

weed wars, Jan 02:12

tools and equipment specialty garden hoes, Jul 07:34

transplants, Nov 03:36

trees blooming, Sep 04:38

crapemyrtle, Jan 14:26, Jan 15:48

elm, Jan 06:45, Nov 15:48 fragrant, May 13:40

Montezuma cypress, Jan 08:47

oak, Sep 05:45, Nov 05:45, Nov 10:48 Parkinsonia, Jan 18:48

planting primer, Nov 15:42

pruning, Jan 15:40 shade, Jan 04:32, Jul 05:38, Sep 15:26

small, Sep 16:26

Texas redbud, Jan 10:48

what's wrong with my tree? May 04:30

vegetables. see also Richter, Skip: tomatoes

Anaheim-type peppers, May 16:40 Asian greens, Nov 12:22

cole crops, Sep 02:38

in containers, Sep 14:36 cool-crop know-how, Sep 10:35

cool-season salads, Jul 99:40, Nov 08:40 edible container gardens in winter, Nov

05:40

green beans, May 03:14 greens for the summer garden, May 02:12

head start on spring, Nov 07:36

hot veggies for cool-season, Jul 15:14 hot-weather, May 14:32

kale, Jan 06:36

lettuce, Jan 07:29 oriental radishes, Sep 99:30

peppers, Mar 03:30

pole bean, Mar 18:14 pumpkins, decorative squash, May 02:34

rhubarb, Texas style, Jul 03:18

salad, Sep 11:41 spinach, Sep 03:14

successful spring garden, Jan 03:14

Swiss chard, Mar 07:32 unique summer greens, May 99:40

vegetable garden success, Nov 04:20

winter squash, May 99:22 vines

Carolina jessamine, Mar 13:48

coral vine, Sep 07:47 crossvine, Mar 09:48

fragrant, May 13:42

Ricinus comminis (castor bean) heat-loving, May 05:44, May 06:46

not for little children, Mar 08:5

ornamental foliage, Mar 03:42 Riddell, John Leonard (botanist), Sep 15:42

Ripper (Mrs) (rose grower), Jan 18:25

Risien, Edmond E. (horticulturist), Jul 16:39 Riverside Nature Center (Kerrville), Jul 10:42

Rivina humilis (pigeonberry) for Rio Grande Plains gardens, Nov 99:25

roadsides, landscaping, Nov 99:40

robber fly, May 03:28

Robbins, Kelley gardening for mental health, Jan 18:13

Roberts, Opal B. (educator), Sep 12:39

Robinia pseudoacacia, Jul 16:50

Robinson, Lana

beneficial insectary, May 00:22 bigtooth maple, Sep 00:26

blackberries, Mar 03:22

cactus, Nov 03:30 citrus success, Sep 03:18

daylilies, May 05:26

fish and plants in the greenhouse, Mar 00:30 garden trains, Mar 06:14

gardens and gardeners

Accents of Salado, Jul 05:32 Austin Organic Gardeners, Nov 04:34

Brazos de Dios, Jul 01:26

with children, Nov 01:36 Festival Hill Herb Garden, Jul 02:12

Heritage Center, Mar 05:38

Hodges Gardens, Jul 04:26 Karrousel Farm, Jan 99:36

Living Educational Landscape Project,

Nov 00:30

master gardeners, Jan 04:20

Medina Garden Nursery, May 02:20

P/2 Organic, Jan 05:20 Jerry Parsons, Jan 03:34

San Antonio Botanical Garden, Jan 06:14

TAMU Horticultural Gardens, May 03:38 Texas Heritage Garden, Jan 01:34

garlic, Sep 01:14 gourds, May 04:40

hobby hoop house, May 01:16

home beekeeping basics, Jul 00:34 Hopi pecans, Nov 99:32

labyrinths in the landscape, Jan 07:38

lavender fields, Sep 04:26 melons, lessons from the pros, Jan 00:38

Mexican avocado, Nov 02:26

olives, Jul 03:30 ponds, Mar 01:38

Texas-sized tomato ranch, Nov 02:14

Texas sources for plants, Sep 02:20 trap cropping, Jan 02:20

watersaving wonders, Mar 02:20

rock mallow. see Pavonia lasiopetala rock rose. see Pavonia lasiopetala

rocks for landscaping, Nov 99:42, May 15:43

Roe, Nancy composting, Nov 98:14


sweet corn in small areas, Mar 99:14 roly polies, May 00:46, May 13:23

roofs, green, May 07:46

root crops, Jul 11:14, Jul 15:15 root knot nematodes, Mar 02:30, May 15:24

root rot, cotton on Texas sage, May 00:11

root systems, Nov 16:36

roquette

cool season green, Nov 08:42

Rosa (rose) Antique Rose Emporium, Nov 01:8

banksiae, Sep 08:47, Mar 16:48 bracteata, Mar 07:44

brandy, Jul 03:25

David Byrne (Breeder), Mar 15:38 cemetery plantings, May 08:47

chinensis, May 07:45, Sep 08:45, Jan 11:48

cultivars 'Belinda's Dream,' Mar 02:45, Jan 05:45

‘Carefree Beauty,’ Sep 11:48

'Crimson Glory,' Nov 16:5, Jan 17:5

'Earthkind,' Sep 05:38, Sep 08:43, Sep

13:14, Nov 13:5 'Graham Thomas,' Nov 00:47

'Grandma's Yellow,' May 07:45, Jan

13:48 'Grandma's Yellow Rose,' Jul 15:23

'Heritage,' Nov 00:47

'Lady Banks,' Mar 07:50, May 17:5 'Livin' Easy,' Jan 07:8

'Marie Daly,' Nov 03:29, Sep 08:48

'Marie Pavie,' Sep 08:48 'Mermaid,' May 16:50

x multiflora, Mar 18:48

'Mutabilis' (butterfly rose), Sep 99:9, Jan 12:48

x 'Radrazz,' Jan 07:45

'Redcoat,' Nov 00:47 culture

for beginners, Sep 03:41

cloning, Nov 17:13

container grown, May 07:50

fall maintenance, Nov 98:6

fall-planting, Nov 04:9 fertilizing, Mar 00:10, Mar 02:9

hip development, May 00:8

interplanting potatoes, Jul 08:50 landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:44

mulching, Nov 99:9, Jan 01:47 pinching, Jul 00:12

planting, Jan 99:8, Jan 03:9

propagation, Sep 16:20 pruning, Jan 99:8, Jan 00:10, Mar 00:11,

Jan 03:9

rooting, Nov 14:50 Texas rose rustlers, Mar 16:36

watering, Mar 99:8, May 99:7, Jul 99:8,

Jul 00:12, Sep 01:47 in the desert, May 11:13

diseases and pests

black spot, May 01:8, Jul 02:47, Mar 03:45

brown spot, Sep 02:46

improving resistance, May 16:26 Farmers Branch Rose Show, Jul 15:32

gallica, May 07:45

hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41 for health, Jul 07:32

hybrids

David Austin English, Nov 00:26 Habitat for Humanity series, Jan 02:50

John Jons, Sep 16:32

Lillian Illig's journal, Jan 03:30, Mar 03:5 for natural skin care, Jan 03:29

x odorata, Sep 08:46

palustris, Nov 08:47 plant profile, Jan 03:30

x polyantha, May 07:45, Sep 08:45

preserving, Jul 05:23 Nell Rains-Campbell, Jul 12:20

restoration after hurricane, May 07:20

reversion, Sep 16:39 Rose Lady of Llano Estacado, Jul 12:20

rustlers, Jan 18:24

under the spell of, Nov 12:45 Texas Rose Rustlers website, Jan 01:8

types

antique, Mar 12:18, Jan 15:45 bee-attracting, Mar 11:24

climbing, Jan 17:31

easy-care, Sep 13:14, Nov 13:5


fragrant, Jan 06:33, Mar 09:47, May

13:42 heirloom, Nov 99:9, Mar 00:20, Nov 17:4


recommended varieties, Jul 00:46 shrub, Mar 02:8, Sep 05:34, Sep 13:17

rose, Confederate. see Hibiscus

rose, lenten. see Helleborus rose mallow. see Hibiscus

rose of Sharon. see Hibiscus

rose, rock. see Pavonia lasiopetala rosemary. see Rosmarinus

Rosen, Rich

daylily, Mar 08:30

Rosmarinus (rosemary) classic Italian herb, May 10:22

in containers, Nov 01:6 easy herb, Mar 14:23

evergreen for interest, May 99:8

fall planting, Sep 99:9, Sep 01:8



holiday decoration, Nov 07:29 as landscape shrub, May 01:9

managing, Jul 00:39

for natural skin care, Jan 03:28 officinalis, Mar 02:38, Mar 11:24, May

12:48, Jan 14:40 ornamental, Nov 17:34


recipes, May 12:42 for scent, Jan 06:33, Nov 09:17

for tea, Jan 01:43

topiary, Nov 03:8 trailing, Jan 18:5


Rosprim, Mattie (rose grower), Jan 18:24

rotations

for disease control, May 00:39

leaving fallow, Nov 98:6 vegetables, Nov 04:22, 24

rotenone for pest control, May 01:25

row covers fabrics, Sep 01:36, Sep 02:27, Jan 07:48

fiber, Jan 99:29, Sep 06:5, Sep 13:4

floating, Jul 99:44 Grow-Web, Jan 17:50

for mild winter, Nov 05:6

for pest control, May 01:22, Sep 02:47, Nov 14:50

for protection, Sep 06:41, Jan 12:41

removal timing, May 16:50 for season extension, Jul 14:17

for seedlings, May 02:6, Nov 04:6

supports for, Jul 04:7 for tomatoes, May 99:44, Jul 08:5

rubber, recycling, Jul 05:5

ruby grass. see Melinus nerviglumis

Rudbeckia cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:46

fulgida (yellow coneflower), May 00:28 hirta, May 05:24, Sep 17:33

low maintenance perennial, Sep 01:7

for summer color, May 04:27 rue. see Ruta graveolens

Ruellia brittoniana, Mar 02:44, May 02:24, May

07:45, Nov 13:28

Katie dwarf, Sep 02:50

nudiflora, May 02:24, Jan 04:20


Ruiz, Maria garden pests, Jul 14:13

hibiscus, breakfast of champions, Jul 15:12

Rumex crispus (curly dock) cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:46

runner bean, scarlet. see Phaseolus

runoff solutions, Mar 00:34

Rushing, Jessey

The intrepid gardener, Jan 11:13

Russelia equisetiformis (Mexican firecracker

fern) flower fiesta, Nov 04:19 horn-flowered, May 13:28

Mexican native, Jan 01:32

Russell, Adam 2016 Texas Superstar brochures, Jan 17:43

crapemyrtle bark scale, May 17:44

intercropping vegetables, Jan 18:43

Texas A & M AgriLife Research and

Extension Center, May 18:44

Texas Superstar "Victoria Red" grape, Nov 17:24

tomato trials, Jan 18:31

Whopper begonia, Jul 16:24

rust (fungal disease) on roses, Nov 00:47

Ruta graveolens (rue) for southern physic garden, Jul 02:17

winter color, Nov 03:16 rutabaga, Jul 11:16

Ryan, Julie

five old faithful perennials, May 00:26

rye, cereal for nematodes, Mar 11:50, Nov 15:4

rye grass 'Elbon,' Sep 01:6, Jan 12:50

invasive species, Mar 07:43

mowing, Sep 00:13, Jan 01:10 to repair neglected lawn, Nov 99:47

seeding, Sep 99:11

winter, Jan 01:10 rye, wild. see Elymus

S Sabal

mexicana (Mexican palmetto), Jan 08:34 minor, Jan 08:32, Nov 08:47

x texensis (Brazoria County sabal), Jan 08:34

sacaton, alkali native as ornamental, Nov 98:21

Saccharum giganteum (sugar cane plumegrass), Nov

08:46

officinarum (sugar cane), May 06:46, Sep 07:44

saffron. see Crocus

sage. see Salvia sage, Jerusalem. see Phlomis fruticosa

sage, Texas. see Leucophyllum

sagebrush. see Artemisia

Sagittaria lancifolia (white swan), Sep 04:18

latifolia (Aztec arrowhead), Sep 04:18

sago palm yellowing, Sep 09:50

Sagra Trattoria and Bar (Austin), Sep 11:30

St. Augustine grass brown patch on, Sep 04:11, Nov 04:11

fertilizing, Mar 00:9, Jan 10:50


replacing, Nov 11:4 under siege, Jul 02:41

treating Take-All Root Rot, Sep 02:50

water hog, Nov 01:46, Jul 13:50 water-wise turf, May 15:35

St. John's wort. see Hypericum

St. Joseph lily. see Hippeastrum

Saintpaulia plant profile, Nov 11:24

Sakran, M. drought and rain in Texas, May 12:13

five lessons, Nov 11:13

salad burnet. see Poterium sanguisorba; Sanguisorba minor

salad gardens, Nov 04:30

salad greens, Jul 15:15, Nov 15:14, Sep 17:14

salads container-grown greens, Nov 01:13

cool season greens, Jul 99:40, Nov 08:40

grow great greens, Nov 10:14

lambsquarters, Jan 11:5

recipes, Nov 04:32, Nov 05:31, Nov 10:18 take the bland out, Sep 11:41

Salazar, Rey (community gardener), Mar

09:18 Saldana, Gabe

irrigation repairs, May 18:25 saltbush. see Atriplex conescens

Salvia (sage) x 'Anthony Parker,' Sep 04:44 argentea, Mar 01:29


chamaedryoides, Mar 01:28 chiapensis, Sep 03:26

chionophylla, Jan 14:40, Mar 14:5

coccinea annuals, May 11:21

old faithful, May 00:28

plant profile, May 18:23 for summer color, May 14:38

world class perennial, Mar 01:27

darcyi, Mar 01:28, Jul 05:28, May 18:24 discolor, Mar 01:29

divinorum, Jan 14:5

elegans plant profile, Mar 01:29, Mar 03:38, Mar

05:35, May 11:24, May 18:24

fall flowering, Jul 05:26 farinacea

fall bloomer, Nov 16:26

Lone Star royalty, Jan 04:21 naming of, May 07:45

perennial, May 11:22

plant profile, Mar 01:27, May 18:22 Texas tested, Jan 06:31, Nov 11:47

farinacea x longispicata, Jul 05:45, May

15:48, May 18:24 greggii


heat-loving, May 02:28 plant profile, May 11:22, Mar 15:48, May

18:22

pruning, Jan 04:7 for summer color, May 04:28, May 14:38

world class perennial, Mar 01:27

guaranitica plant profile, May 11:24, May 18:23


Texas Tough, Jul 13:48


world-class perennial, Mar 01:29

for health, Jul 07:32 'Henry Duelberg,' Mar 06:43, Nov 06:39

koyamae, Jul 05:28

leucantha fall bloomer, Sep 04:44, Jul 06:32, Jul

16:27, Nov 16:26

Mexican native, Jan 01:32 plant profile, Sep 04:45, May 11:24, May

18:23

for summer color, May 14:38 world class perennial, Mar 01:27

longispicata x farinacea (indigo spires), May

02:28, May 11:23 lyrata, Mar 01:28

madrensis, Mar 01:29, Jul 05:28, May 11:25

mexicana, Mar 01:29, May 11:24 microphylla, May 11:23, May 18:23

'Mystic Spires,' Jul 07:26


nemorosa, Jul 06:50, May 11:22

officinalis

culinary herb, May 10:23, May 18:25 at Festival Hills, Jul 02:14

for health, Mar 02:38

plant profile, May 11:21 for tea, Jan 01:43

oresbia, Jul 05:28 penstemonoides, Mar 01:29, May 11:25


preserving, Jul 05:23 regla (mountain sage), Mar 01:29, Jul 06:32,

May 11:24, Sep 12:44, May 15:30

roemeriana, Mar 01:28, May 01:41, May 11:25, Nov 98:29

sinaloensis, May 11:22

splendens, May 11:21, May 18:24 spp.


for butterflies, Sep 02:37 cool plant for hot months, Jul 01:20


'Lowrey's Legacy' Texas Superstar, Sep 12:24, Nov 12:50

plant profile, Mar 01:26, May 11:20

plant trials, Sep 06:30 shearing, Sep 17:50

x superba, Mar 06:24, May 11:22

superba, Mar 01:28, Nov 03:17 x sylvestris, May 11:22

uliginosa, Mar 01:29, May 11:25

Salzman, John (gardener), Mar 09:31

San Antonio, Texas Area Schools Classroom Garden Program,

Nov 05:47 Botanical Garden, Jan 06:14

Children's Garden, Nov 12:30

community gardens, Nov 11:38 Sander, Susan M.

aliens in our midst, May 02:38

sandpaper tree for Rio Grande Plains gardens, Nov 99:24

sandpaper vine. see Petrea volubilis

Sanguisorba minor (salad burnet) plant profile, Mar 03:39

Santa Ana, Rod, III

palms under attack, Nov 06:25

Sapindus drummondii (soapberry) berries, Nov 12:27

Sapium (tallow tree)

Chinese, Sep 03:5

in defense of, May 01:6 sebiferum, Mar 07:43

Saponaria officinalis (bouncing bet) nocturnal flower, Jul 09:46

Sargent, Pat

tall verbena, Sep 01:39

Sarracenia alata (pitcher plant) treasure from the Big Thicket, Mar 08:47

satsuma blooming, Sep 03:46 fruit drop, Sep 01:46

'Orange Frost,' Sep 15:50

for Texas, May 09:36

Satureja montana (winter savory) cool-season culinary herb, Sep 09:34

savory, white. see Micromeria fruticosa savory, winter. see Satureja montana

Sayle, Carol Ann (Boggy Creek Farm), Jul

08:26, Sep 08:5, Nov 11:23

Scabiosa (pincushion flower) fall planting, Sep 01:29


Scaevola (fan flower) aemula (fairy fan-flower), Jan 06:26

'New Wonder,' Jul 07:24 trailer, Jan 14:43

scale controlling, Nov 99:11, May 01:9, May 02:9

crapemyrtle bark, May 17:44

on fruit trees, Nov 02:10 on peach, Jan 00:10

sago palm under attack, Nov 06:25

white, Sep 13:50 scarlet pimpernel. see Anagallis arvensis

scarlet runner bean. see Phaseolus

Scarpinato, Holly Shiloh Field Community Garden, May 18:40

showered in spiders, Mar 18:34

scent. see fragrance

Schaefferia cuneifolia (desert yaupon) berries, Nov 12:28

Schattenberg, Paul 'Monster' spinach, Sep 17:20

top tomatoes in field trials, Jul 17:24

urban gardening, Nov 11:38 Scheer, Christine

butterfly memoirs, May 99:34

Schefflera reclassification, Nov 02:49

Scheick, William J.

annuals petunias, Jan 15:24

for summer, May 11:26

bee islands, Jan 15:36 black plants for Texas, Jul 10:26

bolting, Jan 16:38

bulbs flashy summer, Mar 05:26

iris relatives, Sep 07:42

repeat-blooming iris, Sep 11:26 species tulips, Mar 10:26

wild onion and false garlic, Jan 18:36

cacti agave, Jul 07:28

aloe, May 14:26

echeveria, Jul 12:26 manfreda, May 14:26

mangave, May 14:26

perennials, May 08:40

prickly treasures, Nov 07:40

tough, broad-spectrum, Sep 17:34 Yucca, May 17:34

flamboyant legumes, Jan 05:18

flower color, Jul 14:26 flowers for small ponds, Sep 04:14

gardens

backyard overhaul, Mar 15:28, May 15:40

being in, Mar 08:42

with dogs, Jul 01:42 Lindheimer's, Nov 06:26

Luci and Ian Family Garden (Austin), Sep

14:26 lunar gardening, Jan 09:34

reversions in the garden, Sep 16:36

green flowers, Mar 11:30 grow your own Christmas tree, Nov 08:32

indoor plants, even outdoors, Mar 12:26

inexpensive water pond, Mar 02:40

lesson in wildscaping, May 00:12

Lone Star royalty, Jan 04:20

Monarchs, Mar 16:40 nativars, Jan 17:38

night bloomers, Jul 13:22

nonnative plants beauty from Argentina, Chile, Jan 07:24

fiesta of Mexican flowers, Nov 04:18 flowers from Down Under, Jan 06:26

"Mexican" beauties, Sep 03:25

New Zealand natives, Jan 12:28 paradise of Brazilian flowers, Jul 05:24

from South Africa to Texas, Jul 04:41

southeastern wildflowers, May 07:26 southern Asia natives, Sep 06:20

southwestern neighbors, Mar 07:26

patriotic flowers, May 10:38 perennials

African violets, Nov 11:24

aster, May 12:26 bells, horns, trumpets, May 13:26

black-eyed Susan, May 05:24

buckwheat, Jan 15:36 catmint, Sep 15:22

clematis, Mar 13:26

coleus, May 09:26 columbine, Nov 02:26

coneflower, Jul 09:26

coral bells, Sep 13:32 coreopsis, Jan 08:28

Cuphea, Sep 10:26

daisy, Nov 05:26 daylily, Mar 06:26, Mar 14:36

ebony spleenwort, Sep 01:20

Eryngium, Nov 09:36 euphorbia, Sep 08:34

fringe flower, Mar 18:33

golden thryallis, May 12:24 hosta, May 10:26

mini-calla madness, Jan 10:37

night bloomers, Jul 13:22 orchids, Jan 11:27

ornamental rosemary, Nov 17:34

Pelargonium, May 18:36 penstemon, Mar 04:40

Plectranthus, Jan 09:41

rain lilies, Jul 06:36 rock rose, Jan 01:18

southwestern hyssops, Sep 12:26

spiderwort, Nov 03:41


trailing plants, Jan 14:36

unfussy, resilient, Nov 13:26 shrubs

berry-bearing, Nov 12:26

cordyline, Mar 09:42 firebush, Mar 03:26

flowering quince, Nov 01:34

fringe flower, May 04:29 honeysuckle cultivars, Sep 05:18

Ilex, Sep 14:42

rose of Sharon, May 03:37 Ruellia, May 02:24

standards, Nov 10:28

Texas mountain laurels, Nov 09:35 singing the blues, Sep 09:26

soil, restoring contaminated, Nov 15:28

solanums, Jul 11:20 sources of, Mar 14:5

Texas Superstars, Jul 15:20

trees

in drought, Mar 17:30

fig, Jan 16:13

live-oak sprouts, Jul 17:32 mast-fruiting and prop-rooting, Nov

16:34

vines crossvine, Jul 02:31

exotic, May 06:24 free and worth the tangle, Sep 00:34

hoya, Mar 18:22

passionflower, Jan 13:26 yellow bells, Jul 03:16

weeds worth having, Jul 08:42

wildlife pests, Nov 14:26

Scheick, William J. "Adventures in Texas Gardening," Jul 17:4

Schizanthus pinnatus (butterfly flower) from South America, Jan 07:24

Schlesinger, Don

Mom's greatest gift, Nov 02:12

Schlumbergera (Christmas cactus) inducing blooms, Sep 04:8

propagation, Nov 02:8 Schneider, Bill (avocado grower), Nov 02:26

school gardens Center High School, Jul 10:5 The Cylinder Gardening Program, Nov 11:39

Elkhart Elementary, Nov 16:40

The Funny Farm, Sep 11:13 Hunt School Youth Discovery Gardens, Mar

10:36

Schrade Middle School, Nov 15:34 St. Mark Lutheran School, Jan 06:5

Stonewall Jackson Elementary School, Jan

10:28 Scoparia 'Melongolly Blue,' Jan 06:31

scorpions, May 07:13

Scutellaria (skullcap) Lone Star royalty, Jan 04:20

suffrutescans, May 04:28, May 09:48

sea holly. see Eryngium seaoats. see Chasmanthium latifolium

season extension see also cold frames basics of, Sep 02:26

heat-capturing structures, Jul 14:14

light bulbs for, Sep 02:28

Secale cereale (cereal rye) cover crop, May 16:17

Seder, Vicki

English garden, Jul 02:11

sedge for butterflies, Jul 17:20

sedge, New Zealand. see Carex comans

sedge, white topped. see Dichromena colorata

Sedum see also Hylotelephium

acre, Jul 13:43 morganianum (donkey's tail or burro tail), Jul

02:39

palmeri, Jul 02:39, Jul 13:42 potosinum, Jul 13:42

spectabile, Jul 02:38, Sep 02:37

seeders PVC pipe, Sep 99:44

seedlings care of, Jan 10:43 thinning, Jan 99:6, 29

seeds basics, Sep 13:36

buying, Nov 07:38


freezing, Jan 17:5 heirloom, Jan 16:30

hybrid, Jan 16:29

open-pollinated, Jan 16:31 planting, Jan 99:28

saving, Jul 02:18, Sep 05:6, Sep 06:12, Nov 09:45, Nov 12:17

scarifying, Sep 00:49

Southern Seed Legacy, May 12:31 starting

basics, Jan 10:42, Sep 12:34

in garden, Mar 06:36 light, Mar 14:50

newspaper pots, Sep 01:38

timing of, Jan 02:35 toilet paper strips, May 06:5

tomato, Jan 15:14

warm season flowers, Jan 03:7 storing, Mar 02:6, Mar 03:8, Sep 09:50, Sep

12:50, Nov 17:50

temperature chart for vegetable, Jan 99:31 type makes a difference, Jan 16:28

viability, Mar 06:38, Jan 07:35

Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve (Johnson

City), May 13:34

Selenicereus grandiflora for moonlight garden, Mar 04:39

Self, Ed, Nov 16:20

self-heal. see Prunella vulgaris

Sempervivum (hen and chicks) hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41

Senecio confusus (flame vine), Nov 04:19 obovatus (golden groundsel), Jul 99:29

senior citizens

easier gardening for, Nov 17:14

Senna corymbosa, Jan 07:24

lindheimeriana, Nov 06:26

senses garden for all five, Sep 10:12

using your, Jul 99:34 seraphid flies, May 13:23

serviceberry, toothed. see Malacomeles

denticulata

Setcreasea pallida (purple heart or wandering

Jew) hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:40


plant profile, May 07:47 trailer, Jan 14:40

shade changing through the year, Mar 06:34 defined, Jan 01:28

structures, Sep 02:6

Shafer, Bobbie garden memories, Jan 08:13

Mother's gardenias, Jul 07:13

trial-and-error gardening, Jan 13:13 Shakespeare, William, Jul 06:13, Sep 06:5, Nov

07:5

Shangri La Botanical Garden (Orange), Sep 10:20

Shanks, Micah

The Giving Field, Jul 16:42 try "green" for the "blues," Nov 15:13

sharing plants, May 04:12, Jul 09:13, Mar

15:45

shark teeth. see Kalanchoe

Sharp, Margaret (rose rustler), Mar 16:36

Shepherd, Shay herbs, priceless bounty, May 10:13

Sher, Ray

Urban Harvest, Nov 09:44 Sher, Ray (market gardener), Nov 12:42

Sherrod, Elizabeth sweet peas, Jul 12:24

Shiloh Field Community Garden (Denton),

May 18:40 Shirey, Trisha (Lake Austin Spa Resort), May

15:20

Shiro, Nita (gardener), Jul 16:34

Shockley, Kari and Jim (new Texas

gardeners), Nov 14:30

Shockley, Virgie F. truth in tilling, Jan 02:18

Shoopman, D.L.

remembrance of flowers past, Jan 17:13 Shoup, G. Michael (Antique Rose Emporium),

Sep 02:21, Mar 16:37

shrimp plant. see Justicia

shrubs to attract birds, Nov 00:8

avoid "shearing," Mar 06:9 balled and burlapped, Mar 02:8

bare root stock, Jan 02:8, Jan 03:8

for Blackland Prairies gardens, Nov 00:31 books about, Jan 03:5


container-grown, Jan 03:8 fall planting, Sep 01:44, Nov 02:8, Sep 03:9,

Nov 03:8, Nov 04:9

fertilizing, Jan 02:9, Mar 03:10, May 06:9 fragrant, May 13:40

low-water choices, Nov 12:21

medicinal, May 07:28 native, Jan 99:19

pruning, May 00:12, Mar 02:8, Nov 03:22,

Jan 06:10 for shade tree gardens, Jul 03:28


summer watering, May 00:12 Texas Forest Service seedling program, Nov

06:14

Texas Superstars, Jul 15:23 transplanting, Sep 08:30, Nov 14:22

winter cleanup, Jan 08:41

shui cai



si gua plant profile, Jul 04:17

Sibley Nature Center (Midland), Jan 13:36

silver-bush. see Sophora silver king. see Artemisia

silver nickel vine. see Dichondra argentea

silver ponyfoot. see Dichondra argentea silverbell. see Halesia diptera

silverleaf, Big Bend. see Leucophyllum

Simpson, John gardening in the Chihuahuan Desert, Jan

13:40

sinks, outdoor, May 01:36 site selection, Nov 14:14

skin care, Nov 08:31

skinks, May 08:44 skullcap. see Scutellaria

skunks, Nov 14:29

sky flower. see Duranta

sky vine, see Thunbergia

skyflower. see Plumbago

Slaughter, Sam and Cathy (nurseryfolk), Jan 09:14

slime mold, May 12:50

slugs, controlling, Jul 01:49, May 18:50

smart phones My Cities Trees (app), Sep 16:44

Smilax smallii (Jackson vine) vine for Texas, Jan 17:30

Smith-Rodgers, Sheryl lessons from roadsides, Nov 99:40

smoke tree, American blooming tree, Sep 04:41 small tree, Sep 16:29

smothering weeds, Mar 11:38

snail vine. see Vigna caracalla

snails

brown garden, Mar 05:24

controlling, May 01:47, Jul 10:49, Nov 98:45 D.E. for, Jul 01:42

Sluggo for, Jul 01:49

snailseed, Carolina. see Cocculus carolinus snake eye bush. see Phaulothamnus spinescens

snake herb. see Dyschoriste linearis

snakeroot, yucca-leaf. see Eryngium

snakes as beneficials, Nov 99:6

controlling, Sep 99:46 deterring, Nov 14:29

mulch and, Jan 99:44

in ponds, Nov 01:47 Texas, Jan 18:45

valuable predators, Sep 17:4

snapdragon. see Antirrhinum snapdragon, summer. see Angelonia

snapdragon vine. see Maurandya barclayana

sneezeweed. see Helenium Snowden, John

native grasses, Nov 98:18

snowdrop. see Galanthus snowflake. see Leucojum aestivum

snowflake, water. see Nymphoides

soapberry. see Sapindus drummondii

soapberry, western three-season tree, Nov 98:40

sod installation, Mar 99:9, Sep 01:11

late laying, Sep 00:13

Texturf Bermuda grass, Jul 00:10

watering, Jul 00:10

soil see also pH

benefits of companion planting, Sep 01:33

building great, May 09:23, Mar 14:40 for deck gardens, Nov 00:20

in El Paso, Mar 05:47

erosion, Sep 14:35 fixing saline, May 09:50

garden beds in clay soil, Jul 10:50

high salt content from manure, May 01:6 matching fertilizer to, Sep 00:13

organic gardening and, Jan 01:15

preparation, Nov 12:14 for raised beds, Mar 16:17

restoring contaminated, Nov 15:28

sandy, May 13:50 solarizing, May 01:23

winter care, Nov 06:20

soil amendments decomposed granite, Nov 15:5

gypsum for texture, Mar 99:6

nurturing with buckwheat, Jan 15:36

soil preparation for best results, Jan 12:40

building 101, Nov 01:14 for fall planting, Jul 99:19, Jul 04:6, Jul 06:14

half-and-half garden, Jan 15:4 for new garden, Nov 14:16

for new lawns, Jul 00:10

for spring planting, Jan 03:15 for tomatoes, May 99:44

soil testing diagnosing problems, Nov 99:8 for fruit trees, Jul 00:8

head start for spring, Nov 07:36

kits, Mar 99:44 low budget, Mar 13:20

before spring planting, Mar 00:7

where? Nov 13:5

Solanum capsicastrum, Jul 11:22

carolinense, Jul 11:23 crispum, Jul 11:21, Sep 11:5

dimidiatum, Jul 11:23

jasminoides, Jul 05:25, Jul 11:22 laxum, Jul 11:22


pseudocapsicum, Jul 11:22 pyracanthum, Jul 11:23

quitoense, Jul 11:23

rantonnettii, Jan 07:24, Jul 11:21 rostratum, Jul 11:23

sisymbriifolium, Jul 11:23

solarization for pest control, May 01:23

for weed control, May 09:23, Mar 11:38

Solenostemon scutellarioides 'Aurora' series, Jan 06:30

'Black Cherry,' Jan 06:30

'Burgundy Sun,' Mar 06:45 cuttings, Nov 08:25

'Peach,' Jan 06:30

'Plum Parfait,' Mar 06:45 sun cultivars, May 09:26

Solidago (goldenrod) cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:46 fall bloomer, Jul 06:34

solstice herbs, Nov 10:36

Sondgeroth, Dan (sweet potato farmer), May

13:18

Sophora blooming, Sep 00:47


secundiflora, Sep 04:40, May 05:5, Jan 09:48, Mar 09:47, Nov 09:35, May 13:40,

Sep 16:29

sorrel. see Oxalis sotol. see Dasylirion

Soule, Ginger (Austin Organic Gardeners),

Nov 04:37 South America, flowers from, Jan 07:24

South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature

Center (Corpus Christi), Mar 09:22 Southern Methodist University gardens, Jul

06:28

Southern Seed Legacy, May 12:31 southernwood. see Artemisia

soybean cover crop, Nov 16:50

edamame, Nov 16:50, Mar 17:14

grown on International Space Station, Jan

03:50 plant profile, May 05:20

try in your garden, Mar 01:8

Spanish bayonet. see Yucca

Sparaxis tricolor (harlequin flower) plant profile, Sep 07:43

Spears, Joe and Donna (Argyle Acres), Sep

02:21

Spencer, Tom (gardener and PBS television

host), Sep 09:18

Sphaeralcea ambigua (desert mallow) drought resistant, Mar 07:27

sphagnum moss, Jul 05:35

spider flower. see Cleome hasslerana

spider lily. see Hymenocallis

spider mites

on beans, Jul 03:47

controlling, Jul 99:6, Jan 01:6, Nov 05:46 on fruits, Jul 00:8

insecticide for, Jan 00:46

MiteYFine mite blaster, Jan 12:5, Mar 12:5 organic controls, Jan 00:6

on peas, Jan 13:50

primer, May 00:20 red, Nov 00:46, Sep 14:50

on roses, Nov 00:29

spraying, May 07:7 on tomato, Nov 99:46, Mar 00:47, Nov

00:46, Mar 02:31, Sep 07:50, Mar 09:37,

Sep 14:50 spider plant. see Chlorophytum

spiders as beneficial insects, Sep 00:49, Mar 01:23,

Mar 03:18, 20

harmful, Nov 01:41

in a north Texas garden, Jan 11:13 wildlife capers, May 03:21

wildlife profile, Mar 18:34

spiderwort. see Tradescantia

Spigelia marilandica (Indian pink) for Piney Woods gardens, Mar 99:32

spillers (plants), Jan 14:40

spinach see also malabar spinach

All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37 Asian, Nov 12:24

'Catalina,' Jan 00:8

container-grown, Nov 01:13


cool season green, Nov 08:41

Egyptian, May 02:15 fall planting, Sep 04:6, Sep 06:7, Jul 08:17

fusarium wilt, May 01:46

germinating, Nov 99:8 growing in winter, Nov 05:6

Japanese, Jul 04:17

'Monster,' Sep 17:20 plant profile, Sep 00:24, Sep 03:14, Sep

14:14

planting, Nov 17:50 recipes, Mar 04:42, May 04:5

spring planting, Sep 12:50

storing, May 14:18 testing wastewater usage, Sep 03:50

thinning, Jan 99:6

water spinach, May 99:40 year round, Mar 09:50

Spirea yellowing, May 00:46

spleenwort, ebony. see Asplenium

Sprekelia formosissima (Aztec lily) blooming, Jan 02:47

sprinkler systems audit, Jul 12:36

installing, Mar 01:11, Nov 98:10 maintaining, Nov 98:10

for season extension, Sep 02:27 types of, Jul 03:10

sprouts, edible grow your own, Nov 00:7, Nov 02:36 types of, Jul 99:42

square-foot gardening, May 18:42

squash All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37

'Bush Delicata,' Nov 01:6, 25

diseases and pests controlling fungus on, May 02:6

cucurbit yellow vine disease (CYVD),

Jan 02:23 nematodes on, Jan 18:50

virus control, Jul 04:7

'Eight Ball,' Jan 99:6 fall crop, Jul 99:20

growing decorative, May 02:34

harvesting, Nov 99:8, Sep 00:7 moisture stress, Sep 05:47

pickled yellow, Jul 05:46

plant profile, Mar 00:14, Jan 04:37, Mar 08:14

planting, Mar 06:7

pollination, May 99:43, Mar 01:46, May 04:49, Mar 06:50, Jul 12:50, Jan 18:50

'Ronde de Nice,' Jul 99:6

saving seeds of, Jul 02:20 storing, May 14:20

'Sunburst Yellow Scallop,' Jul 99:6

'Sunshine,' Mar 04:47 tatume, Jul 08:50, Sep 08:50, May 12:34

as trap crops, Jan 02:20

winter, May 99:22, Sep 00:7, May 06:6, Mar 14:26, May 14:5, 20

'Zucchetta Rampicante,' Jul 99:6

zucchini, Sep 11:50

squash bugs green streaked fruit, Mar 15:50

handpicking, Jan 15:13 organic control, Sep 99:46, Sep 05:46

row covers, Jan 13:50

trap crops, Jan 02:23, Mar 04:42

squash vine borers, Sep 01:46, May 15:24, Jan

18:50 squirrels, Mar 00:46

bar soap in pecan trees, Jul 15:5, Nov 15:5

in defense of, Sep 06:5 Fox Scent, Sep 99:46

gone mad, Mar 15:5

peanut butter traps, May 15:5 pest profile, Nov 14:26

the porch tree, Sep 15:13

St. John's wort. see Hypericum

Stachys byzantina (lamb's ear) managing, Jul 00:39


stakes branches and brush for peas, Jan 99:42

hosiery ties, Sep 01:37 for tomatoes, Mar 06:30

tripods, Jul 01:7


Stapelia horrida as houseplant, Nov 03:34

star jasmine. see Trachelospermum jasminoides star violet. see Hedyotis crassifolia

Stargate Manor Arboretum (Plantersville),

Mar 18:26 Stark, H.J. Lutcher (gardener), Sep 10:20

stasuma, Nov 03:47 Stein, Larry

backyard orchards, Jan 06:22

berries, Jan 99:32, Nov 99:14, Mar 02:16 chilling requirements for fruit plants, Jan

02:36

citrus in containers, May 04:36 dwarf fruit, Nov 00:15

exotic fruit, Jul 01:22

fall-planted strawberries, Sep 00:18, Jul 04:22

figs, Jan 01:38

fruit pruning for better yield, Jan 00:14 grafting, Mar 04:34

grapes, Sep 01:22, Jul 06:38

growing fruit for profit, Sep 02:15 old fruit trees, Jan 04:28

ornamental pear, Nov 03:18

peaches, Jan 03:22 pears, Nov 02:32

pecans, Nov 01:30, Sep 04:20, Sep 06:22,

Nov 98:38 persimmons, Sep 03:38

strawberries in containers, Nov 06:32

tree care: bare versus container, Jul 02:32 Stein, Larry (Texas A&M), Jul 16:39

Steinberg, Casey (ginger grower), May 11:35

Stellaria media (chickweed) edible weed, Sep 11:43


Stephen F. Austin State University Pineywoods Native Plant Center, Nov 10:24

Stephens, Jessie Gunn

a trade secret, Mar 01:14

Stephens, Ronnie and Rodney (watermelon

growers), Jan 00:38

Sternbergia lutea (autumn crocus) fall bloomer, Jul 99:32, Jul 05:30

Sterne, Adolphus (gardener), Sep 10:46

Stetsoniacoryne as houseplant, Nov 03:34

Stevia (candyleaf) crazy for daisies, Nov 05:27

rebaudiani, Jul 09:30

Stewart, George and Mary (gardeners), May 03:12, May 09:16

stink bugs controlling, Nov 13:50 symptoms, Mar 02:33

on tomato, Jul 01:6, May 07:7, May 08:50

trap crops, Jan 02:25 stock. see Mattiola

Stoner, Joanne

gardening with impossible soil, Jul 00:13 Mother's lilies, Jan 99:14

Stonewall Jackson Elementary School (East

Dallas), Jan 10:28

storms garden restoration, May 07:20

surviving Ike, May 09:24 Strauss, Jeanne

great tomato race, Nov 05:13

straw bale gardening, Jul 15:5, Nov 16:14

strawberry for all of Texas, Jul 15:36, Sep 15:50

alpine, Nov 99:10 container grown, Jan 99:32, Mar 99:5, Nov

06:32

drip irrigation, May 00:10 fall planting, Sep 00:9, 18, Sep 02:9, Jul

04:22, Sep 04:10, Nov 04:10 fertilizing, Mar 06:50

Grandmother Davis, May 06:13

narrowing rows, May 03:9 not a perennial in zone 8, Sep 05:46

pests, Mar 00:9, May 00:46

plant profile, Mar 02:18, Jul 08:20, Jul 11:41 planting, Nov 01:10

soil pH requirements, Nov 00:12

soil preferences, Nov 00:12 Sweet Berry Farm, Sep 02:12

winter planting, Jan 99:10

strawberry bush. see Euonymus americanus

Streptocarpus plant profile, Nov 11:24

Strmiska, Carrie C. non-gardening neighbors, Nov 01:12

Strobilanthes dyerianus (Persian shield) for bright-shady areas, May 03:7

Stromanthe sanguinea plant trials, Sep 06:31

succession planning for in garden, Jan 99:30

short row, Mar 99:42

succulents for containers, Jul 13:40

low-water choices, Nov 12:21

plant profile, Nov 03:30 winter-hardy, Nov 09:40

suckers, propagation by, Jan 10:36

sugar cane. see Saccharum

sugarberry, Texas for Rio Grande Plains gardens, Nov 99:24

Sullivan, Madeline Grandad's hoe, Jul 03:12

sulphur langbeinite, Jul 03:41

sumac. see Rhus

summer checklist, Jul 17:4

sundew. see Drosera annua sundrops. see Calylophus hartwegii

sunflower. see Helianthus

sunflower, Mexican. see Tithonia


Sunshine Community Gardens (Austin), Jan

14:14 supports. see cages; stakes; trellises

sustainability Brazos de Dios, Jul 01:26 Karrousel Farm, Jan 99:36

Luci and Ian Family Garden, Sep 14:26

meets hydroponics, Jul 99:14 Sustainable Food Center, Jul 09:43

World Hunger Relief, Inc., Jul 07:20

Sustainable Food Center (Austin), Jul 09:43 Swafford, Joshua (olive grower), Nov 14:41

swamps, Nov 16:44

Swedish ivy. see Plectranthus sweet Anne. see Artemisia

Sweet Berry Farm (Marble Falls), Sep 02:12

sweet gum for health, May 07:30

sweet herb of Paraguay. see Stevia

sweet mignonette. see Anredera cordifolia

sweet pea. see Lathyrus odorata

sweet potato see also Ipomoea edible leaves, May 18:18

edible roots, Mar 08:50

harvesting, Sep 03:7, Sep 04:7, Nov 04:6, Sep 05:7

nematodes on, May 99:44 ornamental, May 17:28

plant profile, May 06:30, May 09:46, May

13:14 planting, May 03:7

sources for, Jul 03:46

starting slips, Jan 17:50 storing, Sep 02:7, Sep 05:7, May 14:20

"turkey," Jan 06:5

sweet woodruff. see Galium odoratum sweetspire. see Itea virginica

Swiss chard for fall color, Jul 16:27 fall planting, Sep 03:6, Sep 06:6, Jul 08:17

plant profile, Mar 07:32, Sep 07:33, Jan

12:14 row covers, Mar 04:6

storing, May 14:20

summer green, May 18:17 winter color, Nov 03:15

switch cane. see Arundinaria gigantea

switchgrass for bog water garden, Nov 08:46

lowland, Nov 98:21

warm season grass, Nov 00:24 sycamore, Nov 15:50, Jan 16:5

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus (coralberry) berries, Nov 12:27 Post Oak Woodlands native, Jan 00:21

Symphyotrichum for butterflies, Sep 17:33 drummondii, May 12:28

ericoides, May 12:29

lateriflorum, May 12:30 novae-angliae, May 12:27

novae-belgii, May 12:27

oblongafolium, Jul 06:31, Sep 06:45, May 12:30

Symphytum (comfrey) officinale, Jul 02:16 plant profile, Jul 00:14

syrphid fly, Mar 03:20, May 03:29

syrups, simple, Nov 08:29

T tachnid fly, Mar 03:20

Tagetes (marigold) fall blooming, Sep 03:7, Jul 16:27

fall planting, Jul 05:8 heat-tolerant, Jul 03:8

lemmonii, May 01:34, Sep 03:26, Sep 04:44,

Jul 06:31, Nov 07:47 lucida, Mar 14:22

fall-bloomer, Sep 04:44, Jul 05:28, Jul

06:31 fall bloomer, Nov 16:26


plant profile, Sep 09:48 Texas native herb, May 01:34


Talley, Charlotte Horne tomato harvest ideas, Nov 98:34

tallow tree. see Sapium

tambalisa. see Sophora

Tanacetum (tansy) balsamita, May 04:24

vulgare, Mar 03:39, May 04:22 tangelo, May 09:35

tangerine 'Orange Frost,' Sep 15:50 plant profile, Sep 08:32, Nov 08:50

for Texas, May 09:35, 37

tansy. see Tanacetum tapioca, variegated. see Manihot esculenta

tarragon. see Artemisia

tatsoi Asian green, Nov 12:23

cool season green, Jul 99:40

tatume squash, Jul 08:50, Sep 08:50, May 12:34

Taxodium distichum (bald cypress) for bog water garden, Nov 08:47

drainage preferences, Jul 08:5

Taylor, Toni and Darlene (gardeners), Sep

15:39

teas, herbal, Jan 01:42, Nov 08:30

Tecoma capensis, Jul 04:42

stans bell-flowered, May 13:26

heat-loving, May 05:45, May 06:46, Jul

06:50, Jul 07:25 heat-tolerant, Mar 02:7

for hummingbirds, butterflies, Jul 00:12,

Mar 09:24 introduction, May 07:45

for native gardens, May 01:41 plant profile, Mar 00:40, Jul 03:16, Jul

04:46

seed pods, Jan 01:47 source for, Sep 07:50

temperature

AHS heat zone map, Jul 99:7 chill period for fruits, May 01:10, Jan 02:36

coping with summer heat, May 00:49

first frost dates, Nov 98:6 heat from light bulbs for season extension,

Sep 02:28

misting systems, Jul 99:22 spring warming trend, Mar 17:50

vegetable planting and, Jan 99:31

Tephrocactus as houseplant, Nov 03:34

Terning, Mark

Lantana, Mar 99:34

Texas A & M University

AgriLife Research, Mar 15:38, May 15:35, May 16:26, May 18:44

Dr. Julio Bernal, Sep 03:45

'Earthkind' rose trials, Sep 05:38 Horticultural Gardens, May 03:38

Master Gardeners program, Jan 04:22, Mar

04:5 Texas Heritage Garden, Jan 01:34


2016 brochure, Jan 17:43 Alternanthera "Little Ruby,' Jan 16:32

Duranta, Nov 06:38

Helenium 'Dakota Gold,' Sep 10:38 Rosa 'Marie Daly,' Nov 03:29

Salvia 'Henry Duelberg,' Mar 06:43, Nov

06:38 Salvia 'Lowrey's Legacy,' Sep 12:24

Satsuma mandarin 'Arctic Frost,' Jan

16:20

'Victoria Red' grapes, Nov 17:24

Whopper begonia, Jul 16:24

tomato trials, Jul 17:24, Jan 18:31 Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center,

Sep 10:30

Warren and Margaret Barham Texas Heritage Garden, Jan 01:34

white peaches and nectarines, Sep 14:30

Texas Agricultural Education and Heritage

Center, Mar 05:38

Texas bluebells. see Eustoma grandiflorum Texas Forest Service seedling program, Nov

06:14

Texas Gardener 30 years of publication, Nov 10:4

changes we've made, May 18:4

digital version, Mar 14:5, Nov 15:5 index, May 14:5, Jul 16:4

kudos for 30 years, Jan 11:5

longtime subscriber, Sep 14:5 Texas Quilt Museum (and garden), Sep 13:42

Texas Rare Fruit Growers, Nov 16:20

Texas sugarberry for Rio Grande Plains gardens, Nov 99:24

Texas Superstars. see Texas A & M University

Texas Tech University (Lubbock), May 17:18

Thevetia peruviana (Mexican oleander) Mexican native, Jan 01:32

thinning fruit, Mar 03:12

scissors for, Nov 17:4

seedlings, Jan 99:6, 29, Mar 03:7

thistle see also Cirsium

controlling, Mar 99:44, Jan 07:47, Jul 15:50 Thomas, Alice

looking-back garden, Sep 00:14

Nita Schiro, Jul 16:34 Thomas, Elaine

great galloping guineas, Jan 10:13

Hostyn Hill Greenhouses, Nov 14:34 keepsake garden treasures, May 04:12

La Grange Farmers Market, May 14:40

Thomas, John R. (Wildseed Farms), Sep 02:23 thrips on roses, Nov 00:29

thryallis. see Galphimia

Thunbergia alata (black-eyed Susan vine), Sep 06:21,

May 17:28

grandiflora (sky vine), Sep 06:21


thyme. see Thymus

Thymus (thyme) x citriodorus, Jul 04:38, Jul 11:37


herba-barona, Jul 04:39 lanuginosus, Jul 04:39


praecox subsp. arcticus, Jul 04:38 serpyllum, Jul 04:39

vulgaris

at Festival Hills, Jul 02:15 for health, Mar 02:38


plant profile, Jul 04:38 for tea, Jan 01:43

Tiarella (foam flower) southeastern neighbor, May 07:26

Tibouchina urvilleana (princess flower) Brazilian flower, Jul 05:25

tickseed. see Coreopsis

tilapia raising in greenhouses, Mar 00:30

tillers and tilling double axle, Nov 05:5

primer, Jan 02:18

tiny-mice plant. see Cuphea Tiquilia greggi, May 15:30

Tithonia (Mexican sunflower) 'Fiesta del Sol,' Nov 99:10, Mar 00:8

flower fiesta, Nov 04:18

titi for bog water garden, Nov 08:47

toads, Sep 06:46

tobacco, flowering. see Nicotiana tobacco hornworms, Mar 04:46, Nov 12:13

toloache. see Datura

tom kha soup, May 13:33 Toman, Deb (keyhole garden guru), Mar 14:18

tomatillo fruit on "dead" vines, Mar 12:5 plant profile, Mar 09:14

tomato '444,' May 04:50, Sep 04:5 All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37

BHN-968, May 13:4

bologna sandwiches, Sep 14:5 'Camp Joy,' Jan 01:7

cherry, Nov 09:13, May 13:23

cloning, Jul 00:44 container with nesting bird, Nov 14:5

cracking, Sep 00:7, Mar 02:46

cutting back, Sep 02:46 diseases

blossom end rot, May 02:6

controlling, Mar 15:23 early blight, Jul 99:47, Jul 00:46, Mar

02:30, Jul 02:47, Mar 18:18

infection, Nov 16:50 leaf roll, Jul 11:50

primer, Mar 02:30

problem solver, Mar 12:40 virus, Nov 03:47

dried red, May 99:28

environmental stress, Sep 14:50 fall crop, Jul 01:6, Jul 03:14, Jul 11:30

favorites, Jul 12:4

fertilizing, May 99:6, Jul 01:6, May 02:6, Jul 02:46, Mar 09:36, Mar 13:5, Mar 15:22

the first of season, Jul 14:4

folklore, Nov 99:49, Nov 98:34

fruit set, May 09:50, Jan 11:50

getting through summer heat, May 11:50 glyphosate damage, Jul 10:50

grafting, Nov 13:30

the great race for first ripe, Nov 05:13 Great Texas Tomato Contest winners, Nov

99:18, Jan 00:43, Nov 00:38

green, Mar 01:7, Sep 03:47, Sep 04:7 growing

beginner's guide to great, Mar 05:44

easy, Jan 18:14 in garbage can, Mar 05:46

greenhouse, Mar 00:33, Jan 13:5, Nov

14:35 starting your own, Mar 00:7, Mar 03:46,

Nov 05:20, Sep 11:50, Nov 17:50

year round, Mar 07:5 Gulf coast story, Sep 99:13

heat stress, Sep 03:46

height of, May 04:49

heirloom

'Black Krim,' Sep 17:5

'Brandywine,' May 17:50 growing, Nov 03:26

overrated, Sep 06:5

plant profile, Jan 17:14 vs. hybrids, Jul 00:47

hydroponics, Nov 02:19 label coding, Mar 17:50

leggy, Mar 03:46

and mockingbirds, Mar 18:13 mulching, Mar 15:23

new technology of, Nov 98:47

organic, Mar 00:33, Jan 02:12 pests and pest control, Mar 15:23

aphids, May 01:7, Mar 09:37

birds, Sep 01:47 caterpillars, Mar 09:37

cutworms, Jul 02:46, Jul 03:47

herbicide damage, Jul 10:50 hornworms, May 01:7, Jul 01:5, Mar

02:31, May 14:50

problem solver, Mar 12:40 spider mites, Nov 99:46, Mar 00:47, Nov

00:46, Mar 02:31, Sep 07:50, Mar

09:37, Sep 14:50 stink bugs, Jul 01:6, May 03:6, Mar 09:37

plant profile, Mar 01:16, May 06:28, Jan

08:14, Jan 12:20 planting, Jul 02:6, Mar 15:21

pollination, Sep 03:47, Mar 14:50

preserving, Nov 10:12, May 11:38 problem solver, Mar 02:30, Mar 12:40

pruning, Jul 99:6, Jul 01:34, Mar 16:50

recipes, May 05:34, May 10:24, Nov 10:13, May 11:40, Nov 98:36

record-setting, May 99:26

replacing scraggly plants, Jul 99:6 ripening, Sep 02:7, Jul 03:15, Sep 03:47,

May 11:50, Nov 98:34

row covers and, May 99:44, Jul 08:5 saved by neighbors, Nov 14:4

in small spaces, Mar 10:40

soil requirements, May 99:44, Jul 99:47, Mar 09:35, Mar 15:20

spring, Jan 04:14, Mar 04:42, Jul 04:5

storing, May 14:20 Sugary, Jan 06:6


supports, Mar 06:30, May 06:5, Jan 14:19,

Mar 15:22

tasting, Jan 14:16 Texas Gardener Tomato Survey, Jan 13:14

Texas passion for, Jan 14:4

tip layering, Jul 03:6, Jul 04:6, Sep 09:50 The Tomato Project, Jan 17:44

transplants, Mar 99:6, Mar 00:7, Jan 15:14

trials, Jul 17:24, Jan 18:31 varieties

choosing, Mar 15:21

clustering, Jan 01:49 determinate vs. indeterminate, Mar 08:5

early, Jan 07:36, Jan 16:14

grape, Jan 05:32 heirloom, Jul 00:47, Nov 03:26, Sep 06:5,

Jan 17:14

'HM1823,' May 18:5 'JD's Special C-Tex Early Black Tomato,'

Jan 13:20

Jerry Parsons' hybrids, Jan 03:35

'Juliet,' Jan 99:6, Jul 05:5, Sep 05:46, Jan

06:6

'Lillian's Yellow Heirloom,' Jan 01:7 new and improved, Mar 04:6

'Orange Strawberry,' Jan 01:7

'Park's Whopper,' Nov 02:5 source for Big Zac, Jan 02:5

stuffers, Jan 06:40 'Sweet 100,' Jan 01:7

'Tycoon,' Jul 14:24, Mar 15:4, May 15:50,

Jul 15:5, 25, Mar 16:5 Village Farms, Nov 02:14

watering, Mar 13:5

wonderful world of, Jan 16:4

tomato hornworms controlling, Mar 02:31, Jul 13:5

raising to butterflies, Jul 01:5 treatment for, May 01:7

tomato recipes canning, May 11:40 cinnamon couscous, Sep 13:40

conserve, Nov 98:37

freezing, May 11:41 fried green, Nov 98:36

green, Nov 98:36

green tomato cake, May 05:34 mincemeat, Nov 98:36

oven-drying, May 11:41

oven-roasted, May 11:41 relish, Nov 98:36

roasting, May 11:41

salsa, May 11:40, Nov 98:36 sauces, May 11:40

trouble-free soup, Nov 10:13

uncooked herb sauce, May 10:24

tools and equipment hoes, Jul 03:12, Jul 07:34, Sep 07:4, Mar

09:5 hose timers, Jul 02:9

onion/leek planter, Nov 10:5

PVC pipe seeder, Sep 99:44 for tomatoes, Jan 12:20

torch lily. see Kniphofia

Torenia (wishbone flower) 'Catalina' series, Jan 06:30

toxic plants. see poisonous plants

Trachelospermum jasminoides (star jasmine) die-back, May 08:50

fragrant, May 13:42

unfussy, resilient, Nov 13:27


vine for Texas, Jan 17:30

Trachycarpus fortunei (Chinese windmill) hardy palm, Jan 08:32

Tracy, Susan

ferns of Texas, May 00:40 native grasses, Nov 00:22

Tradescantia (spiderwort) plant profile, Nov 03:41, Jan 04:5 subacaulis, Jan 00:35

trailers (plants), Jan 14:40

trains, model, Mar 06:14

transplants cool-season, Jul 17:14

fall, Nov 14:20 growing great, Sep 03:4, Nov 03:36, Mar

04:5, May 04:5, Jan 08:36

head start for spring, Nov 07:39 jumpstarting, Jan 03:18

move it or lose it, Sep 08:26

pinching back, Mar 02:8

shading, Jul 02:6, Sep 04:6

worth the trouble? Jan 02:35

trap cropping, Jan 02:20, Sep 03:5 Travis County Correctional Complex, Jan

12:36, Jan 16:22

Trécul, Auguste Adolph Lucien (botanist), Sep 15:42

trees see also Christmas trees; fruit trees

bacterial leaf scorch, Jul 00:12

balled and burlapped, Sep 00:8, Mar 02:8, Jan 04:8

bare root stock, Jan 02:8, Jul 02:33, Jan 03:8

for Blackland Prairies gardens, Nov 00:32 blooming, Sep 04:38


for color, Jan 00:32 construction damage, Mar 00:11

container-grown, Jul 02:34, Jan 03:8, Jan

04:8 diagnosing problems, May 04:30

in drought, Mar 17:30

evergreen, Jan 00:32, Sep 08:30 fertilizing

deep-root, Mar 99:7, Nov 99:11

shallow hole, Mar 02:8 spring boost, Mar 03:10

young trees, May 06:9

fragrant, May 13:40 grade changes and, Jul 99:46

Greenfolk, Jan 09:12

hardwood forest, Sep 15:45 lightning protection, Jul 07:46

limb cuts, May 18:5

low-water choices, Nov 12:21 medicinal, May 07:28

My Cities Trees (app), Sep 16:44

National Register of Historic Trees, Nov 02:49, Jan 03:5

native, Jan 99:19

oak wilt resistant, Jan 00:30 planting

depth, Nov 15:5

fall, Sep 99:9, Sep 01:44, Jul 02:28, Nov 02:8, Sep 03:9

primer, Nov 15:42

pruning, Mar 99:7, Jan 03:8, Nov 03:23, Jan 06:10, Jan 15:40, Mar 15:5

root invasion, Mar 14:50

for shade, Jul 03:28, Jan 04:32, Jul 05:38,

Sep 15:4, 26, Jan 16:5

small ornamental, Sep 16:26, Nov 98:40 source for, Nov 13:50

staking, Mar 01:9, Jul 01:42, Jul 06:10

Texas Forest Service seedling program, Nov 06:14


Texas Trees Foundation, Sep 04:34 topping, Nov 04:50

transplanting, Sep 08:30, Nov 14:22

trimming low branches, Mar 15:50 watering, Jul 99:8, May 00:12, Mar 01:9, Jul

06:9

trellises livestock panels, Sep 01:34

for tomatoes, Mar 06:32, Jan 14:19

types of, Mar 02:27 trials. see plant trials

trichogramma beneficial insects, May 00:25

Trifolium incarnatum (crimson clover) cover crops, May 16:16

Trillium recurvatum native plant, Jan 04:45

tripods, Jul 01:7

Tripsacum dactyloides as contaminant filter, Nov 15:31

Triticum winter hardy, Nov 15:50

Tropaeolum (nasturtium) for fall color, Jul 16:26 language of flowers, Jan 02:31

pickling, Jul 03:25

plant profile, Jul 03:24 winter planting, Jan 00:9

tropical vines, May 17:26

trumpet vine. see Campsis trumpet vine, blue, see Thunbergia

trumpet vine, desert. see Podranea ricasoliana

tuberose. see Manfreda; Polianthes

Tulipa chill period, Jul 99:46, Jul 00:47, Sep 00:46

clusiana, Sep 05:44, Mar 10:27 orphanidea, Mar 10:29

plant trials, Nov 04:27

praecox, Mar 10:28 saxatilis, Mar 10:28

species for Texas, Mar 10:26

storing, Sep 16:50 sylvestris, Mar 10:28

tunnels, hoop, Sep 02:28, Jul 14:18

tupelo gum locating for transplant, Jul 99:46

not desirable for landscaping, Sep 99:6

tupelo, water for bog water garden, Nov 08:47

turfgrass. see lawns

Turk's cap. see Malvaviscus turmeric. see Curcuma

Turner, Bob (Turner Seed), Sep 02:23

Turner, Jimmy fall color with a Texas twist, Jul 05:26

tested Texas tough, Jan 06:28

Turner, Jimmy (horticulturist), May 07:14 Turner Seed (Breckenridge), Sep 02:23

Turnera ulmifolia (yellow alder or buttercup) flower fiesta, Nov 04:18 heat-loving, May 05:44

turnip All-Texas Selections, Jul 01:37



turtles in water gardens, Sep 01:11

twig girdlers, Sep 04:10, Nov 04:9 Tye, Judith

gardening in central Texas, Mar 06:13

Typha (cattail) for bog water garden, Nov 08:46

U underwing moth, Jan 05:47

Ungnadia speciosa (Mexican buckeye) weed worth having, Jul 08:44

What Was It? Jan 99:43

United States Department of Agriculture hardiness zones, Mar 12:4

zone confusion, Jul 12:50

University of Texas Chihuahuan Desert Gardens at El Paso, May

01:38, May 15:31

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Jul

15:4

Micro Farm at Austin, Mar 15:24 Winedale Historical Center at Austin, May

16:32

urban gardening spread of, Nov 11:38

Urban Harvest (Houston), Jan 07:20, Nov

07:31, Nov 09:44 Urban Patchwork (neighborhood gardens),

Mar 12:32

V Val, Barbara

Texas natives in small garden retreats, Nov

99:26 valerian. see Valeriana officinalis

Valeriana officinalis (valerian) for southern physic garden, Jul 02:17

vanilla, Jul 10:46

vegetable gardens, May 07:43

container, Nov 05:40, Sep 11:5, Jul 12:14 disease control, May 00:7, 39

diseases in, Mar 17:43

Earth-Kind, May 15:38 fall gardening, Jul 99:19, 20, 21, Jul 01:32,

Jul 06:20, Jul 08:15

fertilizing, May 00:7, Jan 02:6, Mar 03:8 head start for spring, Nov 07:36


Lake Austin Spa Resort, May 15:20 lessons from unsuccessful gardener, Nov

11:13

maximizing space for, May 04:46 mistakes to avoid, Nov 12:14

mulching, Mar 00:16, Jul 00:7

overplanting, Jan 11:4 pests and, May 00:7

planning, Jan 11:42

planting fall, Jul 04:20

guide, Jan 00:26

rotations, Sep 13:50 spring, May 00:7

temperature, Jan 99:31

timing of, Jan 99:28 transplants, Jul 00:7, Jan 03:6

warm-season, Mar 02:6

winter, Nov 98:6 second season, Jul 07:14


spring success, Jan 03:14, Nov 04:20

summer, May 12:4 Texas A&M Vegetable and Fruit

Improvement Center, Sep 10:30

vertical, Mar 02:28, Mar 13:14 weeding, Sep 03:6

winter, Nov 05:40

vegetables see also names of specific vegetables;

vegetable gardens

All-Texas Selections, Jan 00:28, Jul 01:36 Asian greens, Nov 12:22

cole crops, Sep 02:38

container grown, Sep 11:5, Jul 12:14, Jul 13:50, Sep 14:36

cool season, Jul 99:40, Jan 02:6, Sep 02:7,

Sep 03:6 cool-season transplants, Jul 17:14

easy for garden schools, Nov 12:34

eating fresh, May 14:13

greens, May 99:40, Jul 99:40, May 02:12

on the grill, Jul 06:22

harvest-time tips, May 14:4, 14 heat-tolerant, May 02:6, Jul 02:6, May 14:32

intercropping, Jan 18:43

no waste end of the season, Jan 15:5 oriental, Jul 04:14

planting time, Mar 18:50 plants per person, Nov 14:16

regional varieties, Jan 15:31

ripening tips, Jul 11:38 sharing, May 16:13

storing, May 14:16


Verbascum thapsus (mullein) for health, Nov 00:42

invasive species, May 02:41 for southern physic garden, Jul 02:17

verbena. see Aloysia

Verbena bonariensis, Sep 01:39

x hybrida, May 07:45

managing, Jul 00:39 plant profile, May 04:43

transplanting, May 05:46


Verbesina virginica (frostweed or white

crownbeard) for butterflies, Sep 02:37 nectar plant, Mar 07:17

vermiculture, May 08:5, Nov 11:34, Jan 16:34

Vernonia lindheimeri, Nov 06:27

marginata, Nov 06:27

vertical gardening, Mar 02:26, Sep 15:20 verticillium wilt, Mar 02:30

vetch. see Vicia villosa

vetiver. see Chrysopogon zizanioidies Vetiveria. see Chrysopogon zizanioidies

Viburnum acerifolium, Mar 99:32 landscape plant with berries, Sep 06:44

rufidulum, Jan 00:20, Nov 04:45, Nov 11:5

suspensum, Sep 04:41

Vicia villosa (hairy or winter vetch) cover crop, May 16:16

plant profile, Sep 99:42 Victoria Educational Gardens, Nov 07:18

Vigna caracalla exotic vine, May 06:24

Viguiera stenoloba (skeletonleaf goldeneye)

heat-loving, May 02:29 for native gardens, May 01:41

for Rio Grande Valley gardens, Sep 99:37

Village Farms (Fort Davis and Marfa), Nov 02:14

Vinca (periwinkle) avoid in central Texas, Mar 00:8 minor (creeping myrtle), May 99:44, May

00:10


vinegar herbal, Sep 04:31, Nov 08:27

for weed control, Mar 11:42

vines annual, Jan 03:40, May 17:26

exotic, May 06:24 fall planting, Sep 03:9, Nov 98:10


flowering, Mar 14:32

fragrant, May 13:42

fruiting, Mar 17:36

low-water choices, Nov 12:21 planting, Jan 03:8

pruning, Mar 99:8, Jan 03:8

for shade tree gardens, Jul 03:29 tropical, May 17:26

worth growing, Sep 00:34, Jan 17:29

Viola (pansy) for fall color, Jul 16:28

fall transplants, Sep 99:9 for health, Jul 07:32

odorata, Jul 03:25

plant trials, Jan 06:28, Sep 06:28 syrup of violets, Jul 03:25

tricolor (Johnny jump-ups), Nov 01:29, Jul

03:25 'Ultima Morpho,' Nov 01:7


winter-planting, Nov 04:8 violet, Philippine. see Barleria cristata

Virginia creeper. see Parthenocissus

quinquefolia

viruses tomato, Mar 02:31

vegetable garden, Mar 17:44

Vitex agnuscastus

blooming tree, Sep 04:42 cutting garden favorite, Jan 10:47

introduction, May 07:45

'Lecompte,' Jul 03:8 plant profile, Sep 99:18

'Salinas Pink,' Jul 03:8

hand-me-down plant, Jan 02:41 for health, May 07:29


pruning, Sep 08:50 recommended small tree, Jul 03:46

supplemental watering, May 01:10

Texas Superstar, Jul 15:23 vodkas, Nov 08:29

voles, Jan 14:50

volunteer plants, Jan 05:13

W Waco Pond Society, Mar 01:38

walkways. see pathways Wallace, Russ, Jul 15:36

walls training plants on, May 00:8

Walther, Judy (landscape designer), Jan 14:32

Waltrip, Jim delicious Delicata, Nov 01:25

wandering Jew. see Setcreasea pallida; Zebrina

pendula

Washingtonia filifera (fan palm) hardy palm, Jan 08:32

Wasowski, Andy Blackland Prairies, Jul 99:26

High Plains, Jan 99:20

Piney Woods, Mar 99:30 Post Oak Woodlands, Jan 00:19

Rio Grande Plains, Nov 99:22

Rio Grande Valley, Sep 99:34 Texas Hill Country, Nov 98:26

Trans Pecos El Paso, May 99:14

wasps beneficial, Mar 01:21, Mar 03:18, May

13:22, Jan 14:50

parasitic, May 13:21

parasitoids, Mar 03:20

on pea, Jan 18:4

predatory, Mar 03:20 yellow jacket, Jan 14:50

wastewater testing use on spinach, Sep 03:50 treatment in constructed wetlands, Sep 00:39

water conservation, Jul 14:25, May 16:34

water gardens see also ponds

adjacent to turf, Nov 01:11 all-natural, May 04:14

basics, Sep 09:22

bogs, Nov 08:45 containerized, Sep 99:12, 26

fountains in, Mar 00:12

illegal aquatic plants, Sep 05:46 installing natural, Jul 04:32

liners, Mar 00:12

mosquitoes and, Jul 04:5 new life for landscapes, Jan 17:32

planting, Mar 99:11

plants for, Jul 99:11 water-tinting, Nov 01:11

water hyacinth. see Eichhornia crassipes

water lily. see Nymphaea water snowflake. see Nymphoides

water spinach, May 02:13

watering see also irrigation systems; rainwater

harvesting

conservation, Mar 02:20, Jul 12:32, Mar 13:24

containerized berries, Jan 99:34

deck gardens, Nov 00:20 for fall garden success, Jul 06:19

for frost protection, Sep 06:40

herbs, May 00:8 in hot temperatures, May 00:7

in keyhole gardens, Mar 14:14

lawns, Jul 01:10, Nov 98:10 mistakes to avoid, Nov 12:15

misting systems, Jul 99:22

next battle ground, Jan 08:48 over-watering, Mar 07:47

primer, Jul 99:38, May 03:22

with recycled water, Sep 06:46 sod, Jul 00:10

watersaving tips, Mar 02:25

woody plants, Jul 00:12


watermelon

for clay soil, Mar 09:50 germinating, Jan 99:28

moisture stress, Sep 05:47

pollination problem, Jan 08:50 seedless, Jan 00:38, Jul 04:50

storing, May 14:20

on trellises, Jan 04:5

Watsonia (bugle lily) borbonica, Sep 07:42

pillansii, Sep 07:42 wax myrtle. see Morella cerifera

waxweed, blue. see Cuphea

Wayne, Carl dumpster diving for gardeners, Jul 11:13

weather drought and rain, May 12:13

Weber, Ann and O.J. (gardeners), Jul 13:26

websites Dave's Garden, Jan 09:42

garden blogs, Jul 08:24

webworm, fall burning risky, Sep 00:8 controlling, Sep 99:10, Sep 01:9, Sep 02:8,

Sep 04:9

on nut and fruit trees, Jul 02:8 on pecan, Jul 99:9, Sep 00:47

primer, Jul 99:16

Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida

plant profile, Jul 17:48 hispida

for Hill Country gardens, Nov 98:29

perennial groundcover, Jul 07:50 for summer color, May 04:28

texana, Jan 14:48

weeds and weeding going to seed, Nov 12:17

Grandad's hoe, Jul 03:12

grass burrs, Jan 09:50, Mar 09:5 lawns, Nov 99:11

'lost cause' spring garden, Jul 00:22

mowing/covering, May 07:6 mulch for control of, Jan 10:5, Jan 12:41

newspaper mulch over, Jul 03:11

in organic gardens, Jul 05:16, Mar 11:38, May 11:50

overrun vegetable patch, Sep 03:6

perennial, Sep 04:12 pre-emergent weed killer, Jul 01:12

prevention, Jan 03:19

primer, Mar 04:14, Jul 04:5, May 06:38 repeated plowing, Jul 05:6

specialty hoes, Jul 07:34, Sep 07:4

timing of, Sep 06:12 winter, Jan 01:12

worth having, Jul 08:42

weevil, leaf notcher, Jul 14:50

Weigla suitability for Texas, Nov 01:46

'Sunset,' May 16:50 Welch, Bill, Mar 16:37

Welch, William C.

fruiting vines, Mar 17:36 rose rustlers, Jan 18:24

succulents for containers, Jul 13:40

vines, Jan 17:28 Welch, William C., Nov 05:44

Welliver, Salome and Seth (butterfly

gardeners), Mar 17:18

West Texas Nursery (Lubbock), Nov 06:17

wetlands constructed, Sep 00:39

natural, Nov 16:44

wheat, winter hardy. see Triticum wheel bugs, May 18:48

Wheeler, Nell

save that rain! Mar 17:40

white flies beneficial fungi for, Mar 11:50

on citrus, May 00:10 in greenhouse, Mar 06:50

on tomato, Mar 02:32

on vegetables, Nov 00:46 White, Jay

bluebonnet, Jul 17:27

caladiums, May 15:14 cemetery plants, Nov 15:20

chickens, Mar 13:36

compost, Sep 12:30

deer, Jan 18:32

flowers for profit, Nov 11:18

gardening stats, Mar 12:30 garlic, Sep 15:32

gourds, Jan 12:32

habitat for critters, Mar 18:40 heirloom bulbs, Nov 12:36, Mar 16:32

Hilltop Gardens, Mar 15:40 hollyhocks, Jan 13:22

homemade Texas wine, Jul 14:32

honeydew (plant sap), Jul 12:38 Eli Kubieck, Mar 17:26

Magnolia Hill Farm, May 16:20

Cynthia Mueller, Nov 17:38 onions, Nov 16:28

John Panzarella, Sep 13:26

papaya, Jan 15:20 poblanos, Jul 16:30

the poop on poo, Sep 17:22

poppies, Nov 13:22, Jan 17:20 potager, Sep 11:20

power of bugs, May 13:20

ripening tips, Jul 11:38 roses, Mar 12:18, Jul 15:32, Sep 16:20

seed types, Jan 16:28

summer color, May 14:36 tatume squash, May 12:34

thornless prickly pear, Jul 13:30

transplanting, Nov 14:20 trellised tomatoes, Jan 14:19

vines bursting with flowers, Mar 14:32

weed free organically, Mar 11:38 white peaches and nectarines, Sep 14:30

zinnia, May 17:22

white swan. see Sagittaria Whitley, Philip

chickens, Mar 11:13

wild peach. see Prunus

wild plants foraging for, Nov 98:13

Wilder, Tanya The Garden Fairy, May 17:13

wildflowers fall planting, Sep 00:8, Sep 03:8, Sep 06:9,

Sep 12:42

instead of lawn, Jan 00:9

meadows, Jul 99:18, Jul 02:28, Mar 09:13 planting, Nov 00:8

seed sources, Sep 01:8

southeastern, May 07:26

specialty license plate, Jul 15:4

wildlife see also names of specific animals

beneficial, Jan 99:6

in captivity for urine collection, Mar 00:6 habitat for, Mar 18:40

NWF certified habitat, Nov 15:34

wildscaping for, May 00:13

wildrye Canadian, Nov 00:25

Virginia, Nov 00:25

wildscaping Clint Horticulture (business), Jul 00:26

creatures in the yard, May 00:13 Wildseed Farms (Fredericksburg), Sep 02:23

Wilkerson, Don (horticulturist), May 03:38

Willhite Seed, Inc. (Poolville), Sep 02:24 Williams, David A.

Grandma Myrtle's bush, Jan 00:13

Williams, Robert

build a green bean house, May 03:30

Williams, Sylvia McCasland (gardener), Nov

08:36

Williamson County, Texas Living Educational Landscape Project, Nov

00:30

willow avoid planting near water gardens, Jul 01:12 desert, Sep 04:42, Mar 07:50, Sep 16:29

recommended small tree, Jul 03:46

Wilson, Ann Marie yellow buttons, Jan 03:12

windbreaks, May 04:49, Jan 07:48

windmill grass, hooded native as ornamental, Nov 98:21

wine herbal, Sep 04:31 homemade, Jul 14:32

winecup. see Callirhoe involucrata

Winedale Historical Center (Austin), May 16:32

winged beauty vine. see Dalechampia

dioscoreifolia Winningham, Betty (Natives of Texas), Sep

02:22

Winslow, Chris compost tea, May 11:42

winter gardeners' pastimes, Nov 13:4

winter cherry. see Solanum

winterberry. see Ilex

winterfat. see Ceratoides lanata wintergreen. see Gaultheria procumbens

wishbone flower. see Torenia

Wisteria blooming, Jul 00:47

iron chlorosis, Nov 10:50

language of flowers, Jan 02:31 sinensis, Jan 17:29

witch hazel. see Hamamelis

Wolf Ridge (Cooke County) war-torn memories, Nov 03:12

Womack Nursery Company (DeLeon), Sep

02:23 Wong, Guie Git

chicken yard garden, Mar 04:13

wood ashes, Jan 06:12 Wood, Heather

planting some roots, Jan 07:13

Woodson, Dotty


watering basics, Jul 99:38

World Hunger Relief, Inc., Jul 07:18 worm ranching, Nov 11:34

wormwood. see Artemisia

Wright, Charles (botanist), Sep 15:42

writers and writing about gardens, Mar 14:13

X Xeriscape

consider, Nov 01:11

herbs for, May 00:36 primer, May 01:30, May 06:16

Y yam, May 13:14

yard art. see ornaments yarrow. see Achillea; Eriophyllum

yaupon. see Ilex

yellow bells. see Tecoma

yew


Young, Aryn landscaping vs. restoration, Sep 16:42

Young, Mary Sophie (botanist), Sep 15:44

Yucca blooming, Nov 99:47

faxoniana, Nov 09:43 nocturnal flower, Jul 09:47

pallida, Jan 17:48

plant profile, May 17:34 recurvifolia, Jul 15:48

Yucca Do Nursery, Inc. (Hempstead), Sep

02:22 yucca, red. see Hesperaloe parviflora

Z Zantedeschia (calla lily)


Zea mays as contaminant filter, Nov 15:32

Zebrina pendula (wandering Jew) ornamental foliage, Mar 03:43

zedoary. see Curcuma

Zephyranthes for bog water garden, Nov 08:46

fall blooming bulb, Jul 99:33

grandiflora, Jan 17:5 plant profile, Jul 06:36, Jul 10:48

zexmenia. see Wedelia

Zexmenia drought-proof plant, Mar 06:24

hispida, Mar 07:17


zinc for pecan, Mar 99:8, May 99:8, Jul 99:9, Mar

00:10

Zingiber officinale (ginger) Asian herb, Jan 08:22



taste of the tropics, Sep 02:31 for tea, Jan 01:43

Zinnia angustifolia, Jul 07:23 'Carrousel,' Mar 06:8

'Dreamland,' Mar 06:8

easy to grow, Jul 00:8, Sep 10:12 elegans, Jan 10:47, May 17:22


language of flowers, Jan 02:31 'Magellan,' Mar 06:8

marylandica types, Jul 15:24

nocturnal flower, Jul 13:25 'Profusion' series, Jan 99:7, Nov 00:8, Jan

06:30, Mar 06:8

Zoysia grass for acid soils, Sep 99:12


mowing, Jul 00:10 plant profile, May 05:16

planting with Bermuda grass, May 00:46

water-wise turf, May 15:36 zucchini. see squash

zuta levana. see Micromeria fruticosa

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